On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:15 , Raph Frank wrote:
A party ideally, wants candidates who don't get elected (so
they get 'free' votes) or candidates who get more than 1 quota, so the
party gets the excess (more 'free' votes).
Yes, not quite ideally though since more votes is always better than
less. Maybe "the party" would (in open lists) like some of its
candidates to get a bit less votes if it beats some "favourite
candidate of the party" with few votes.
Juho
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