04/11/02 - Reply to `Cambridge Mass. example' of Tue, 09 Apr 2002 From: Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear St�phane, you wrote: "Mr. Davison, first there is a slight error in your data: twelveth ballot of the second column is 01,19,07,02,07,09,12 (I suppose one of the 07 is a 17....)" Donald: I went back to the original `01' ballots (copy below) that I received and the error is also there, so I would say we need to adjust to the error by eliminating the second `07'. St�phane: "Would you have another example, maybe a little bit smaller, but with a tight run between at least 2 or 3 candidates?" Donald: Sorry, but I do not have another example. St�phane: "At this point Mr. Davison would declare Candidate 19 winner. I do not. If in every other districts other candidates of party 19 get better results than this one (325 votes), thus this candidate is a lousy representative of party 19 philosophy: he will not get elected." Donald: The Cambridge election is not a district type election, it is a single area election. The ballots are only one Ward of many in the city. But if it were a district election, any candidate that won any district is entitled to be the representative of the people of that district, regardless of `party 19 philosophy'. Below are copies of some of the 01 original ballots. The last one contains the error. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 034,CYR-0305,WAL)01,19,02 034,CYR-0306,NOB)01,07,02,19,09,08,18,13,15 034,CYR-0307,KUR)01,15,19,02,09,18,08,07 034,CYR-0308,WAT)01,13 034,CYR-0309,WAL)01,19,08,14,16,11,17,07,13,15 034,CYR-0310,RUS)01,15,07,08,19,02,09 034,CYR-0311,JON)01,02,14,16 034,CYR-0312,WAT)01,19,07,09,16 034,CYR-0313,KUR)01,02,18,07,09,19,16,15 034,CYR-0314,MCS)01,09,19,02,07,08,18 034,CYR-0315,RUS)01,19,02,09,07,08 034,CYR-0316,TOO)01,19,07,02,09,15,16,08 034,CYR-0317,NOB)01,07,02,19 034,CYR-0318,NOB)01,07,19,09 034,CYR-0319,SUJ)01,07,09,19,18,02 034,CYR-0320,WAL)01,14,19,02,11 034,CYR-0321,VEL)01,02,07,19,09,18 034,CYR-0322,KUR)01,07,08 034,CYR-0323,MYE)01,02,19 034,CYR-0324,KUR)01,09,18,19,02 034,CYR-0325,REE)01,19,07,09,02,08,16,11 034,CYR-0326,SUW)01,19,09,07,02,18,15,16,08 034,CYR-0327,KUR)01,19,09,07,18,02 034,CYR-0328,ROQ)01,19,09,02,07,15,18,08,16 034,CYR-0329,MCS)01,02,19,07,09 034,CYR-0330,TOO)01,19,02,18,07,09,17 034,CYR-0331,JON)01,02,10,07,18,19,08,15 034,CYR-0332,KUR)01,02,07,15,16 034,CYR-0333,MCS)01,19,07,09 034,CYR-0334,KUR)01,02,19,09,07,18,15,14,03,04,05,06,10,11,13,12,08,16,17 034,CYR-0335,JON)01,19,07,02,07,09,12 Regards, Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald Candidate Election Methods +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Q U O T A T I O N | | "Democracy is a beautiful thing, | | except that part about letting just any old yokel vote." | | - Age 10 - | +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ APV Approval Voting ATV Alternative Vote aka IRV Instant Runoff Voting aka IRVing FPTP First Past The Post aka Plurality NOTA None of the Above aka RON Re-Open Nominations STV Single Transferable Vote aka Preference Voting aka Choice Voting aka Hare Clarke aka Hare Preferential Voting Please be advised that sending email to me allows me to quote from it and/or forward the entire email to others.
