On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:43 AM, James Gilmour wrote:
Jonathan Lundell > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:02 AM
I'm not making a particularly important point here, only that if a
voter can pick a favorite (as required for plurality), then a voter
can build an ordered list.
I know it is straying from single-office single-winner elections in
which this discussion arose, but I suspect not even one voter
marked a preference for all 450 candidates who stood in a 120-place
STV-PR election some years ago. (It was the first election for
a statutory regulatory medical council - doctors or nurses, I forget
which. Thereafter, the UK was divided into four territorial
electoral districts, so the numbers of seats in each were smaller
and the numbers of candidates also smaller.) My point is that
there comes a point when we will genuinely have no further
preferences because we have no sensible basis on which to discriminate
among the remaining candidates. Where that break point occurs will
differ among voters - and that should be the voter's
individual choice.
Just for the record, we don't disagree here.
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