Jonathan Lundell > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:18 AM > In fact, a special provision must be made to ensure that previously > elected candidates remain elected in a countback. There are at least a > couple of ways to accomplish this. It ends up being a subtle problem.
Jonathan, that's a helpful clarification. Does OpenSTV include such "special provisions", so that it can cope with "count-back" counts as well as counts where there are "withdrawn" candidates? > (It's also worth noting that additional candidates might choose not to > stand, or be ineligible to stand, in the countback, and would need to > be marked as withdrawn as well.) Yes, that would be the expected approach for STV count-back, as it is in party-list PR systems where the casual vacancy is filled by the "next" candidate of the relevant party. James No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.100/2375 - Release Date: 09/16/09 05:51:00 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
