If you had the time & inclination to do meek by hand, para 2 of Colin's message below would apply to Meek too. If you can trust the software to transfer the...
I have read of several instances where software devellopers started open source projects to devellop evoting with high hopes only to abandon them because ...
<snip> ... Given notorious developments in the USA, I also see considerable merit in having a "paper trail", in which the counting of the votes cast can be...
... From: "R.G.'Stumpy' Marsh" <rmarsh@...> 11-06-03 `Stumpy' wrote: "With STV the results could be recalculated with preferences for the original...
donald@...
Nov 8, 2003 4:47 am
477
In Ireland, when we fill a vacancy,(Usually after someone dies or gives up thier seat), a new election is called in that constituency. This time round, even if...
I agree that the US was wrong. A court agreed with the city so it would be wrong too. Perhaps they were lacking a algorithm that was definitely better. So...
Dear Craig, Perhaps you could translate into laymans english. I dont have a clue what you are talking about. Or you could make up an example with votes for the...
At 2003-11-09 14:54 +1300 Sunday, Craig Carey wrote: ... That not worded well enough. ... (I.e. a chief.) ... I might as well respond to this: ... A man said...
Dear participants, I have uploaded a paper (PDF format; 25 pages; 607 kB) about that single-winner election method that is sometimes called "Beatpath Method"...
At 2003-11-08 22:45 -0800 Saturday, Brian White wrote: ... The problem of the producing the Boolean equation defining the winners is an easy problem and I can...
stv is as simple (for the voter) as 1,2,3. It also generally happens that most votes count towards electing a candidate. That means that voters for minority...
Greetings list members, To have the party of the vacant member choose a successor would be acceptable for the Party List method of PR, because the voters have...
donald@...
Nov 11, 2003 5:54 pm
485
... ==== Elections are about exercising *choices*. Runners-up are candidates that the voters did *not* choose, the ones they rejected. If you automatically...
There is no real runner up in stv. The last person who lost was the winner of less than a quota. So they should not be elected. So, the choices are, let the...
... The ERS would strongly dislike your paper and on behalf on mathematicians, a rejection of your ideals in the paper would be quite followable. It is that...
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:11:48 +0000, Steve Cooke ... Though they were less "rejected" than most of the other non-elected candidates. ... But under STV, the...
... What are our choices? 1. Recount the ballots eliminating the preference for the vacant member (treating him as having withdrawn before the election). ...
Here in Australia where STV is used, there are various methods used for filling a vacancy. The most common is for the party of the previous member to appoint...
... From: steve.chessin@... Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:45:21 -0800 Subject: Re: Filling a vacancy in STV: There are at least four possible methods of...
donald@...
Nov 12, 2003 10:41 am
492
Recounting the original ballots when seeking a replacement: by Donald on 11/13/03 There are jurisdictions in the world that when filling a STV vacancy, will ...
donald@...
Nov 14, 2003 1:18 am
493
Donald makes some very good points. Some of the arguments for just counting the quota of votes that had elected the vacating member is that it is these people...
Greetings List Members, Bjarke wrote: "I think the best method, if the replacement must be determined from the original STV election result, is to eliminate...
donald@...
Nov 15, 2003 10:44 am
495
... Looking at the results from the 1998 election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, this doesn't appear to be the case. The 18 runners-up were distributed...
... ... I start listing the cases. Candidate B won the first election and candidate B loses the 2nd election since 'B' dropped out. Case 1: 0 winners: case...
Greetings list, November 17, 2003 Jim Riley wrote: "Arguably, the first runners-up method serves as a correction for a source...
donald@...
Nov 17, 2003 11:06 pm
498
The reason in Australia that often only the ballots for the vacating member are re-examined is that it is these voters that have lost their representative. ...
... From: "Mark Irons" <ironsml@...> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:20:55 -0800 Subject: scenarios Hi, I'm in Alameda California. We have local council...
donald@...
Nov 22, 2003 2:05 am
500
... I assume you have a mayor who serves as the 5th member of the council? "bullet votes" wouldn't seem like it was a particularly good tactic. A typical voter...
Reply to Diane's comments on Recount and Party Proportionality: Hi Diana, you wrote: "This certainly happens in the major parties. But when a recount was ...
