> Craig Carey said: > > Would Rock flinch or pause, if asked to put online an artists depiction > > of an Approval ballot paper that shows what the paper looks like when > > there are at least 34 (or 25 or more) candidates competing ?.
> Alex replied: > It won't look any worse than a ballot for any other election method. What > would a preferential ballot look like for 25 or more candidates? I don't have a ballot paper for an IRV election but I can supply a copy of preferential ballot paper with 32 candidates for 15 places (STV-PR) . I don't think I can post it here, but I could scan it and send a picture as an attachment on request. The longest candidate list I know for an STV-PR election is 441 candidates. It was for the first election to the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in 1983. I don't know how many elected places there were on that Council (now superseded), but 61,715 registered nurses, midwives and health visitors voted in that election. There were 129 candidates for 7 elected places on the successor body in 1996. James ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
