[EM] stratified renormalisation for elections

2007-05-23 Thread raphfrk
Howard Swerdfeger electorama.com wrote This is an interesting idea, one I never thought of before. but there are many many issues you need to address before you could even think of implementing something like this The obvious problem is how you define the groups Some of these groups may

Re: [EM] stratified renormalisation for elections

2007-05-22 Thread Howard Swerdfeger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is often possible effect who actually votes elections by selecting when the voting occurs. For example, the general election in Ireland is being held on Thursday. However, university exams are being held at the moment. This means that students are much

[EM] stratified renormalisation for elections

2007-05-21 Thread raphfrk
It is often possible effect who actually votes elections by selecting when the voting occurs. For example, the general election in Ireland is being held on Thursday. However, university exams are being held at the moment. This means that students are much less likely to vote. Also, even the

Re: [EM] stratified renormalisation for elections

2007-05-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:00 AM 5/21/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One solution would be to do stratified renormalisation. This is where you split the population up into sub-groups. If a sub-group is over-represented by the number of voters, the vote of each member of that group would be reduced in weight.