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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...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 3, 2004
7:15 pm
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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...
Jim Riley
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Feb 4, 2004
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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...
Tom Ruen
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Feb 18, 2004
7:22 am
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... 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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Feb 18, 2004
9:44 am
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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...
Craig Carey
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Feb 18, 2004
2:09 pm
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... 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...
Tom Ruen
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Feb 18, 2004
9:49 pm
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... and ... SHOULD SAY...
Tom Ruen
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Feb 18, 2004
10:53 pm
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:21:59 -0600, "Tom Ruen" <tomruen@...> ... Cambridge, Massachusetts does an initial elimination of all candidates who receive...
Jim Riley
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Feb 18, 2004
11:42 pm
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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...
Craig Carey
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Feb 22, 2004
8:25 am
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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...
Das Lav
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Feb 22, 2004
8:56 am
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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...
Richard Lung
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Feb 22, 2004
5:32 pm
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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....
Simon Gazeley
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Feb 23, 2004
11:37 pm
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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...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 24, 2004
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... 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...
Craig Carey
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Feb 24, 2004
12:59 pm
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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...
Simon Gazeley
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Feb 24, 2004
10:50 pm
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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...
Simon Gazeley
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Feb 26, 2004
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Here is a replacement for the Alternative Vote. ... Then Mr Ruen wrote messages to me privately. ... I ran a numerical program that consider simultaneous...
Craig Carey
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Feb 26, 2004
8:17 pm
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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...
Craig Carey
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Feb 26, 2004
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Hallo, here is a paper on Nanson's method: http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Politics/papers/2002/w23/mclean.pdf Markus Schulze...
Markus Schulze
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Feb 26, 2004
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Dear Craig, ... You can find the algorithm in Section 4 of this paper: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stv-voting/files/nmciswem.pdf Markus Schulze...
Markus Schulze
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Feb 26, 2004
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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 -...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 27, 2004
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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...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 27, 2004
5:54 pm
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Many thanks for this, Markus. The next step is to locate Nanson's own words. Simon ... From: Markus Schulze [mailto:markus.schulze@...] Sent:...
Simon Gazeley
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Feb 27, 2004
6:01 pm
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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: ...
Dave Robinson
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Feb 27, 2004
7:38 pm
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... 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...
Craig Carey
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Feb 27, 2004
10:42 pm
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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...
Brian White
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Feb 28, 2004
5:18 am
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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 ...
Richard Lung
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Feb 28, 2004
10:08 am
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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...
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Feb 28, 2004
9:39 pm
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Hello list members, Sorry for the last message I meant to send it to Jeff privately not to the entire list. David Gamble...
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Feb 28, 2004
9:58 pm
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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...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 29, 2004
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