On May 3, 2008, at 19:08 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One possible solution to the clone issue is to scale the number of
candidates to first choice vote.
One option for that would be to allow people cast a nominating vote
as well as the ranking. The total number of nominee votes would
Juho wrote:
Here's an example on how the proposed method might work.
I'll use your set of votes but only the rankings.
51: ACB
49: BCA
Let's then reverse the votes to see who the voters don't like.
51: BCA
49: ACB
Then we'll use STV (or some other proportional method) to
Dear Juho,
I'm not sure what you mean by
How about using STV or some other proportional method to select the
n-1 worst candidates and then elect the remaining one?
Could you give an example or show how this would work out in the
situation under consideration?
Yours, Jobst
Juho
On
Here's an example on how the proposed method might work.
I'll use your set of votes but only the rankings.
51: ACB
49: BCA
Let's then reverse the votes to see who the voters don't like.
51: BCA
49: ACB
Then we'll use STV (or some other proportional method) to select 2
(=3-1) candidates. STV
