With help from feedback from Voice4All list members, I'd like to report some progress. (This won't make sense unless you've read my previous messages on this ...
Hi everyone, Sorry I have neglected this group a bit lately. Well I am back now, and I have banned Mr Carey. If anybody thinks this is excessive, let me know,...
Two former New Jersey governors endorse a constitutional convention as the best chance for the state to finally bring excessive property taxes under control--a...
The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly has recommended that STV be the proposed replacement for the existing FPTP system used to elect the provincial...
Many thanks from members of this group for even telling me to make a submission! And I helped a little in getting the decision (Assembly members were very keen...
Many thanks from members of this group for even telling me to make a submission! And I helped a little in getting the decision (Assembly members were very keen...
Stunning betrayal! monumental political stupidity, etc! Any Ideas how to depose this prima dona? She is a walking and unfortunately ( a talking) disaster. ...
I also have a list called single transferable vote! It just has 3 members (Including me). Personal pathetic group aside, shouldnt we attempt to clear the deck...
I think Craig Carey's actions qualify as harassment which violates Yahoo's Terms of Service: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ There are ample examples of...
... how ... Regret I have not got time right now to reply at length. Some Greens are very strongly influenced by the success and the attitudes of the Green...
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:01:27 -0000, "Brian White" ... My understanding is that there is no guarantee that the government will implement the result of the...
To Brian White and other STV voting members, It could have been worse. Had the Green Party succeeded in their lobbying the Citizens Assembly for MMP, not only...
Hello Group I was most disappointed by Adriane Carr's (Leader BC Green Party) response to the Citizens' Assembly decision to recommend STV so I E-mailed the...
... The Yes Committee is now in formation, and many Citizens Assembly delegates have indicated their intention to take part after the final report has been ...
I have heard that A Carr owes her leadership to a political coup so perhaps she is really working for an other. I do notice the 80% of submissions crap is...
http://www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/public is the site of the citizens assembly. They have a very good "latest news" section to their site. Stv seems to have...
I havnt time to check at the moment. I do have one question though. How do you decide which system of 2 competing ones is better (from the voter getting the...
Richard, What is the rationale? I can't see how it is an improvement. And it looks as though it will allow later preferences to count against earlier ones. Joe...
The only way I know of not allowing later preferences to help or hinder earlier ones is "exclude the lowest", which is the source of most of the perversities...
... You well know, Simon, that the Electoral Reform Society accords very high importance to the notion that later preferences should not affecting earlier...
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Yes I'm with Colin and the ERS on this one. While there may be cases where exclusions seem perverse on one reading, these are, lets remember, exclusions of...
Hallo, I have uploaded a paper in which I argue that today vote management is the most serious problem of STV methods. I propose a new STV method where this ...
Defending Last past the post exclusion, as below message does, is rather like the apologies for First past the post elections. To use a proportional count on...
Well, Brian, to bring experimental science to electoral reform, you hold a citizens assembly on electoral reform. You give them the better part of a year to...
Richard, Hmmm. I don't quite understand you. Are you saying that Plant used my argument (in favour of STV) to reject STV? Do you think Plant would have...
Markus I have read parts of this paper with much interest. Particularly about Vote Management. Here in Australia, members of the Proportional Representation...
Hi all, new to the group, I've been reading some of the past posts and have a question for the collective. As I see, you've already been discussing the...
Joe, Plant attacked STV from its weak point of Last past the post exclusion, ( which I take it you support ) citing an example with no transferable surplus, as...
