Raph Frank wrote:
Another option is to use the original ballots. In Australia, for
their PR-STV seats, the ballots are reexamined after a vacancy and the
results calculated a second time. However, no candidate who is still
sitting in the parliament can be eliminated (i.e. you can't lose your
Sorry, this is a resend as I didn't cc the list.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Schulze's STV proposal uses a proportional completion for this purpose. As
far as I understand, the proportional completion is an extension of the PR
result, for
Maintenance election is a neologism for elections outside of the
normal cycle used to fill vacancies
This came up as a possible use for the Electoral College in Making a
Bad Thing Worse.
This thus begs the question:
How do you deal with vacancies in the legislature due to death,
illness,
