Just a reaction to one little thing that Donald said... --- Donald Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Robertas, ...
> If an election is supposed to be a non-partisan election, then the Hare > quota should be used with STV. The Hare will not average the votes of the > candidates of any party nor faction. Hare quota will treat all the > candidates as if they were running as independents. If the policy of the > election is not to help any party nor faction by not having the method > average the votes of the parties, then a legal law should also be included > which forbids anyone from doing anything to average votes at the ballot > box, such as, handing out `How to Vote Cards". Such a law would amount to a law against free communication between voters. The law would be a bigger insult to democracy than the problem it tries to prevent. Freedom of communication is far more important than the prevention of exploitation of a feature of a voting system. Anthony http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
