On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > This is, I think, a decent general solution to ordering a set of STV > winners: re-count, with only the current winners eligible, for successively > smaller numbers of seats.
Yeah, it is reasonable. The fundamental problem is that if you use PR-STV to elect N candidates from N+1 candidates, then one of the factions that was represented ends up not represented at all. This isn't so big an issue when N is large, but it becomes a larger problem as N gets smaller. For example, if the voters were arranged as a circle, and each candidate represents a 120 degree sector, then picking any 2 of them is not ideal. Something like CPO-STV might help, but the problem seems fundamental. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
