On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:55:26 -0000, "James Gilmour" ... In part due to the tendency of the lead candidate for a party (particularly DUP and UUP) to receive...
On some talk radio station on monday, the host had 2 anti stv commentators on to discuss STV. Moe Sahota (former ndp left winger) agreed with some right winger...
I am wondering about a few things. 1 Malta, and the 2 party state. Are they a western country or north african? (North africa is predominantly one party states...
Anyway, I would just like to say that it is really well written and hopefully will be taken as the basis of the pro STV campaigns. I do not buy papers much...
... No comparative stats to offer, but the UK Electoral Commission gave the following info for the 2003 STV-PR elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. 108...
To stv voting members, "Citizens Assemblies of Canada choose a voting system" at http://www.voting.ukscientists.com/canuk.html is a new page Ive put up about...
For your information, from a Green Party list. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario ... NEWS RELEASE ... January 18, 2005 COMMISSION TO BE SET UP ON PRINCE...
The Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems (the Arbuthnott Commission) published it public consultation paper on 18 January 2005. It is...
"1.6 Scotland has not yet had an election using the single transferable vote system." Hmm. Not exactly correct. Scotland used STV in local education authority ...
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... transferable ... authority ... the ... It is no surprise that there is no mention of the STV elections for the Scottish Education Authorities in the 1920s....
Here is my election experiment version 0.10 It is open source so you may change the source code to make it usuable to your audience. After successful mock...
Hey, you guys! I got one response and no comparison to my earlier posting on the subject. I do not live in STV land anymore so perhaps someone could do a...
Hey, you guys! I got one response and no comparison to my earlier posting on the subject. I do not live in STV land anymore so perhaps someone could do a...
I Attended a meeting on wednsday night. As usual, I was to public speaking as illiteracy is to reading. Anyway, views gleaned from the meeting were as follows....
Brian, I've been trying to figure out how to do something very much like this, and I like your basic idea. One question: in the FPTP ballot, are the same...
Well, in this case, brands would corespond to partys. You could go deeper into light and dark beers, but this is just a basic experiment to explain things to ...
I was very interested to find out that long before my time, Ireland had 9 seat constituencys. FF, largest party got rid of them to reduce the proportionality...
I don't think this answers your question, but a similar thing happened in Tasmania. In the Australian Constitution, each state is guaranteed a minimum of 5 MPs...
The snag with these sorts of attempted comparisons is that one of the issues with FPTP is that people vote insincerely for tactical reasons and wouldn't...
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... I think the words you've missed out are "seek to". You just said the attempt backfired. Seems like a good sanction to me. Colin Rosenstiel...
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Brian White wrote: < Well, in this case, brands would correspond to parties. Yes. I finally figured that out, but only after I posted my response. Here in...
... I believe this is a major problem, which needs to be solved by making the district magnitude part of the constitution, not something the party in power can...
I just had to laugh about the one man one vote comment below. The US gives equal weight to each vote? Really? Then how come Gore wasnt going for re-election...
Voters in fptp tell those tactical electoral lies all the time (Voting for one of the expected front runners rather than the candidate of their choice). (But...
Well, We gotta do something! The totally uninformed BC public are going to the polls in a few months and they have not a clue about stv and how it works. All i...
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:45:11 -0000, "James Gilmour" ... Of 22 losses, 10 were due to seats lost by their party, that is the party elected fewer candidates from...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:24:16 -0000, "Brian White" ... Conventional elections choose members who each have one vote in the elected body. Because of this,...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:58:50 -0800 (PST), Brian White ... Though somehow almost all of the 5 seat constituencies in the Dublin area were converted to 4 and 3...
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:46:14 -0800, "Bob Richard" ... Imagine that you had to rank a number of candidates. You could decide your top choices, and then go to...
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