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

2007-04-22 Thread Juho
On Apr 22, 2007, at 7:37 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Some voters may trust trust the candidates, some not. Both OK. The new method may be so good that it makes the candidates/ representatives less corrupt than before. But there is also the risk that candidates will use their negotiating

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

2007-04-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:28 PM 4/21/2007, Juho wrote: Some voters may think that the candidates know the political questions better and are better up to date than the voter himself/ herself. Some think the other way around. Both OK. The voter may be confident in his/her opinions and finds deviations from them

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] election-methods Digest, Vol 34, Issue 22

2007-04-19 Thread raphfrk
RE: [EM] Tim Hull's PR method Warren Smith wds at math.temple.edu 1. Voters vote for up to n candidates - n being either # of open seats or # of candidates 2. Each voter has one vote equally and evenly divided among the candidates they voted for. 3. After doing the first count,