Re: [EM] election-methods Digest, Vol 34, Issue 24

2007-04-20 Thread raphfrk
Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com wrote: Meek's method elects A, C1 C2 in this example. Right, however, I was looking for a method that can be hand counted. This gets alot of the benefits of on the fly quota recalculation, while only requiring one quota recalculation.

Re: [EM] election-methods Digest, Vol 34, Issue 22

2007-04-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:09 AM 4/19/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it has the same problems as PR-STV where surpluses are not transferred. A voter wastes the excess of his vote if he votes for someone who is elected. I'm just taking the opportunity to note the similarity between multiwinner STV and Asset

Re: [EM] PR-STV and vote management

2007-04-20 Thread raphfrk
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax abd at lomaxdesign.com Fri Apr 20 07:55:43 PDT 2007 At 01:18 PM 4/19/2007, raphfrk at netscape.net wrote: I was thinking about an easier solution to the vote management problem. This is where it is sometimes in a party's interests to try to split their support