People keep asking me how to achieve a proportional representation system so
talking out loud...
A fair proportional multiseat STV representation system could be made
by eliminating STV's elimination rounds but using the rank choices to
transfer partial votes to a 2nd choice candidate in
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com wrote:
In other words, for a multi-seat election where we want proportional
representation, limit voters' choices to a 1st and 2nd choice and
count all voters' 1st choices and transfer excess votes to the voters'
2nd choices and
Kathy Dopp Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 4:45 PM
talking out loud...
You were indeed talking out loud.
From you posts over several years it would APPEAR that you have no real
appreciation of the purpose of a proportional representation
voting system. If you have such an appreciation, it
In an earlier message, A multiwinner election method based on Kemeny,
I detailed an extension of the idea of Kemeny-Young to handle multiple
winners, by assigning each voter to a candidate rank to which the Kemeny
distance between his ballot and the candidate rank was the least, and
using the
