Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-15 Thread James Gilmour
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM, James Gilmour 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 they would have got

Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:01 PM, James Gilmour wrote: Setting a candidate's keep value to zero should only increase the vote totals of all the other candidates. Thus, all elected candidates would stay elected and Meek's method never changes the keep values to eliminate an elected candidate. The