On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[email protected]> wrote: > Therefore, it's useful to know what election methods one can combine with > loser elimination so that the result passes mutual majority. Now, it might > be that my intuition is wrong here and you can get a good multiwinner method > out of something that doesn't pass mutual majority, but I don't quite see > how; it probably won't be much like STV.
Assuming you give the voter's vote to their first choice and automatically elect any candidate once he meets the Droop quota, then the elimination method doesn't matter. No matter what order you eliminate the candidates in the faction, eventually there will be only one of them left. That candidate will thus receive the faction's entire vote and since the faction is larger than a Droop quota (by definition), the candidate will automatically be elected. Reading the rest of your post, I think you have come to the same conclusion, but for single seaters. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
