Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-14 Thread Raph Frank
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM, James Gilmour jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk wrote: The 'count back' procedure with STV-PR provides an alternative approach to the principle of preserving the proportionality determined at the previous main election. Then the voters would get the proportionality

Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-14 Thread James Gilmour
Raph Frank Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:14 PM One issue with PR-STV is that there is no clear way to handle by-election. My own view is that this discussion started in the wrong place. The first question should have been: How should casual vacancies be filled where election is by