Some interesting information about PR usage from Olli Salmi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:00:14 +0200 From: Olli Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [EM] List PR
<snip> You may have noticed that Tom Round proposes a kind of highest average STV in his thesis: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lee/prsa/tround/thesis.html Many of the Students' Unions in Finland have just been having elections. If you are interested in exotic elections and not just the fascinating mathematical properties of voting systems, the Student Union of the University of Helsinki has a site about the elections in English, with a link to the Candidate Test Engine, which has become fashionable in Parliamentary and municipal elections as well, because it is supposed to help you choose between the candidates. They have politely translated the questions into English. http://www.helsinki.fi/hyy/en/elections.html The elections follow the normal Finnish procedure, but apparentements a.k.a. connected lists are allowed. Here are the results tabulated with the votes and seats of apparentements (renkaat), lists (liitot), and the candidates with their numbers, votes, and the quotients within the lists and apparentements. http://www.helsinki.fi/hyy/Tulokset.txt The Greens seem to show the pictures of their candidates, each with a stupid motto. http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/hyvi/ I stood for such an election in the late 60s. I think I got 6 votes, none of which was mine. It wasn't enough. Finnish, Swedish and German Students' Unions use a nice Westminter model. In English speaking countries the officers or directly elected and the councils consist of lots of ex officio members. Best regards, Olli
