Howard > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:18 AM > I feel that the need to look for and design a system around geographic > proportionality is a waist of time (except as a sales pitch). > I believe that geographic proportionality would naturally come out of a > truly proportional system (if it was important to the voters) where the > proportionality of all issues important to the voters are taken into account. > As an example, if a large number of voter care about the number of pot > holes on bank street it is likely that many of these voters live or work > near bank street. and thus would elect at least some politicians that > live near bank street.
And that is what you would get with STV-PR, so why the need to re-invent this particular wheel? James Gilmour No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1515 - Release Date: 23/06/2008 19:16 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info