On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Juho <[email protected]> wrote: > A fully separate P election would make the board less proportional - unless > the elected P would have voting power only if he/she is already a member of > the board.
I think if there are a reasonable number of members, then the non-proportionality will only be slight. I think both the President and VP should be centerists. The President should definitely be a centerist, so making the VP a non-centerist gives that faction more power. Also, by having 2 centerists on the council, you get a mix of councilors who represent portions of the party and councilors who represent the entire party. I would suggest Each voter casts a ranked ballot 1) The condorcet winner becomes President 2) The runner-up becomes Vice-President 3) Use PR-STV to elect the remainder of the council This is simple and doesn't does require special rules to protect from elimination. The same ballots are just processed three times. Also, the fact that the ballots are used three time should help with strategy protection. For by-elections, another option is to elect the condorcet winner. However, ballots held by any of the other are not included. This means that if you have 5 PR-STV seats, the ballots will be split into 6 piles A) Ballots held by councilor A B) Ballots held by councilor B C) Ballots held by councilor C D) Ballots held by councilor D E) Ballots held by councilor E F) Ballots held by none of the candidates If councilor C decides to resign, then you work out the condorcet winner based on the ballots in pile C and F. Also, if the President resigns, the VP becomes President. Vacancies in the VP office are filled by the condorcet winner based on all the ballots. A Councilor must resign his seat to become President or VP, so that triggers another vacancy that has to be filled. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
