Fairshare, the cross-party group that campaigned for the single transferable vote (STV) form of proportional representation for Scottish local government...
Hi there all Well, we have a chance to have STV adopted in British Columbia Canada, but the political elites are coming on strongly against STV. We are looking...
It is a fear that STV will take away some of the power of the parties, and yes they are coming out strong to stop that. Don't worry though, one party in the BC...
Hi the Matthew I have spoken with several DRBC people (including a long conversation with Tom Morino) I met with Simon Moses just before the merger My...
It would be helpful to know what the opponents of STV are saying so that we can counter their arguments. Simon ************** From: Simon Gazeley ... From: B S...
pSTV version 0.7 is now available. A few more methods are available: Condorcet, Coombs, Bucklin, and Borda. British Columbia will be voting soon to decide...
Brown is the Australian Green federal senator for Tasmania. These are some press clippings from a Green Party of Canada list. Doug Woodard St. Catharines,...
Perhaps someone could do the figures for the last 3 Irish general elections and the last 3 BC elections riding by riding? Or take 12 ridings at random from bc...
So,I got no replys in the group to the last post so I will rephrase! In quality control, you can compare the results, on a stv and a first past the post...
In my experience of over 30 years of conducting STV counts and of observing FPTP counts, errors in STV counts are more often spotted because papers are...
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Hello there all We are getting to the short strokes here - we need your financial support. The polls place in the range of winning the 60%, but we need the...
Hello, I was playing around with a C++ compiler simulating STV/IRV elections. I was considering the following hypothetical example: 45% A B C 45% C B A 4% B C...
Monotonicity, What is it exactly? That guy in the other group uses that obscure word a lot too. Nobody ever bothered to define it. Is it something like a red...
Monotonicity, What is it exactly? That guy in the other group uses that obscure word a lot too. Nobody ever bothered to define it. Is it something like a red...
I think it comes down to something like this Ballots: A B C If changed to A C B, There are two things which shouldn't happen. 1. A should not lose as a result...
Dear Colin, thats not what I asked for. For starters, STV produces more votes that elect winners than first past the post. I wiuld like to know what that...
Douglas Woodall's paper deals with this problem. http://www.mcdougall.org.uk/VM/ISSUE6/P4.HTM ... Yes, if we add this condition: Majority: If more than half...
Dear Winston Ewert, ... There are _four_ things which shouldn't happen. 1. A should not lose as a result (later-no-harm) 2. C should not lose as a result...
I doubt the numerical work you seek has been done. There are established procedures which ensure a high standard of accuracy commensurate with the margin of...
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I did a little graph of what I mean on a friends computer and put it as the picture at the gateway to my humble little group ...
... more of the votes count and also that stv ... post. .snip.... ... established procedures which ensure a high standard of accuracy commensurate with the...
STV counting is simple enough in concept. A vote counts for the voter's preferred candidate unless that candidate doesn't need it all or can't use it because...
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Well, Jim, they spend a year figuring it out. And they heard many people in favour of different systems and many reasons to choose different systems. Including...
Charts like this can really show differences between processes! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/single_transferable_vote/ is the graph. I hav'nt got any figures...
I assume your counting the number of votes which didn't get transfered into a none-of-the-above collumn? My problem is that if you had mandated filling out...
Well, I may be incorrect, but wouldn't approval voting used in multi-winner elections result in a large enough voting block electing all the candidates? For...
