I'm looking for information about STV rules that - do fractional transfers of votes, but - do not use the "last batch" rule for surplus transfers Meek, of...
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:15:05 -0500, "Jeffrey O'Neill" ... Don't some of the Australian variants do so in a sense. IIUC, they calculate a transfer value equal...
Dear STV supporters, Wow! I've not posted on this list in more than a year, although I've still been cranking along on single-winner elections for a while. I...
... We only have to consider the combinations "C" & "F" against "D" & "E" to see what nonsense this is. Rules have to cope with all possibilities of course,...
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A new variant of the Alternative Vote is below. ... The Droop (or Hare) quota is a 3 candidate thing and STV's reliance upon it is increasingly a mistake as...
... Dear Colin, Thanks for your reply. This is interesting to me, and I hope you'll give this variation a little more consideration. Do you consider it...
Not that the method below, has the votes from the last candidate, assist the '2nd last' (it is not the 2nd to last but another last ranking candidate under a...
Dear Craig, I am from India. My Name is das. I have pvt ltd co. by name Citra softech . I am interested in developing a software, on stve rules. If somebody...
Earlier in the year, I sent a message about "Reversible STV" on a web page. Acknowledgment here to response from Craig Carey ( not currently subscribed ). And...
Nanson wrote that if you run a series of Borda counts on the same set of votes, the one candidate who is left will be the Condorcet winner, if there is one....
This is discussed on p. 420 of Hoag and Hallet's book which I happen to have right next to me. Nanson's procedure is (1) run a Borda count, (2) eliminate all...
... I expect Reversible STV to be ignored because of the hard to follow presentation. E.g. this webpage could be improved by showing all of the papers at each...
Thanks very much. Your (or possibly Nanson's) concept of a "Borda score" is the reverse of my own - I had always thought that the number of points scored by a...
Dear Jeff and List Thanks again to Jeff for sending details of Nanson's system. Has anyone got a reference for it in Nanson's writings? I found Nanson as...
Here is a replacement for the Alternative Vote. ... Then Mr Ruen wrote messages to me privately. ... I ran a numerical program that consider simultaneous...
At 2004-02-27 08:36 +1300 Friday, Craig Carey wrote: ... were not relevantly responded to (i.e. were ignored). ... I want to fix up this error. ... I correct...
I've just released version 0.3 of pSTV. The most significant change is that Cambridge, MA rules are now implemented. Methods available are: - SNTV - IRV -...
It appears that there is a member of this list who is here to collect emails for spamming purposes. The member is: webcamfun08cnjo1y7@b... Joe Otten is the...
Dear stv-voting list, I am looking for some feedback on a potentially valuable STV variation that I briefly mentioned once on the Voice4All list. BACKGROUND: ...
... That refers to the variant algorithm. ... However you have been getting small clues from choosing US city politicians least likely to lead to the collapse...
I do not think it is a good idea. Candidates will "declare themselves into the centre of the densely populated areas." In stv, geography is already a factor in...
My last week's message to the group didnt return to me, so I dont think you got it. Please see below. ... From: Richard Lung To: stv-voting@yahoogroups.com ...
Hi Jeff I have downloaded pSTV v0.3. The ability to use a fractional quota in Meek is an improvement and generally the programme is looking quite good and I...
Hi David, I'll respond to the list in case anyone else has similar problems. I need to make pSTV clearer with regards to file formats. pSTV currently accepts...