Yep, but I was considering the basis for excluding candidates in the first
place. If, for a moment, you accept the system of electing by quotas and
distributing surplus votes at fractional values (an assumption I might be
less inclined to make after I've looked more closely at Craig Carey's
arguments), the basis for eliminating candidates when you get to a round of
voting in which there is no candidate with a quota is still something that
doesn't seem very clear. In fact, once the eliminated candidates'
preferences start affecting the count, the result seems to become
increasingly arbitrary.
>Hi Layton,
>
>where Nc is the number of candidates remaining that have not been elected
>or excluded, one can conduct a "sub" STV election of Nc-1 candidates. The
>candidate left over can be excluded.
