On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also an STV election that has tens of candidates but allows also shorter > votes may have problems. > > The favourite party of the voter could have 20 candidates. Let's say that > they are all about equally strong. Based on the size of the party we expect > two of the candidates to be elected. In order to guarantee that one's vote > will benefit the party and will not run out of candidates during the > counting process one would have to rank all those 20 candidates.
I think that in such a situation, voters would vote for the 2-3 candidates who live near them, so they should be reasonably safe. However, a district with 20 party members would mean that it had probably around 50 seats and that is way to large. > Voters might be too lazy to do that. Some default (or explicit) inheritance > to the party could help. That is where I would use candidate lists. However, trees work fine too. The key point is to allow the voter directly vote their first few votes as that is where 80-90% of their voting power is. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
