Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
yes, that's it. P. 2013/2/6 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com: On 02/05/2013 09:37 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote: Hi Kristofer, I am afraid your approach might in some cases not lead to proportionally distributed quoted-in candidates. For instance, say we have three coalitions: A, B,

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
James, Jonathan, I need that the quoted-in people are quoted-in in such a way, that the proportionality of the election is not significantly disturbed. I think Rosenthiel's approach has the following insufficiencies: If I elect five women, and then increase the number of elected seats until two

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
Kristofer, to be more exact: I need not just proportionality in the ordered list as a whole (i.e. meaning proportional ranking), but also that seats/candidates are quoted in proportionally within each gender too. Proportionality within each gender is not needed, if the constraints are met.

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Juho Laatu
Is there a quota or gender requirement or both requirements? - If we assume that the quota rules are not needed since both genders will get seats also otherwise, is it ok if one grouping gets 3 women and the other one 2 men? - Is it ok if the second seat goes to a male candidate of some

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Juho Laatu
On 6.2.2013, at 12.29, Juho Laatu wrote: - Is it ok if the second seat goes to a male candidate of some grouping and the fifth seat goes to a female candidate of the same grouping? Clarification: In the second and fifth seats the quota rule forced the sex to be changed. Juho

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Jameson Quinn
STV is not my personal favorite PR rule (my favorites are Bucklin Transferrable Vote or PAL Representation, and Schulze PR is also better than STV). However, if you're starting from STV, the way to do the quota is clear. When the quota makes one gender ineligible for a seat, simply ignore that

[EM] 3 reasons why mutual majorities would be voted, in the Green scenario

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Ossipoff
My concern had been that, in IRV, a party, in order to gain media-support, might instruct its voters to rank, in 2nd place, a media-promoted party's candidate. But there are several reasons why that shouldn't be a problem in the Green scenario. 1. With the open media offered in the Green

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
Jameson, I am not sure if we understand each other here. I am looking for an election system, where the quoted-in seat gives (or moves toward) a proportional distribution of the quoted-in gender. If we fix the seats which will be quoted-in at no. 2 and 5, the quoted-in gender will in some cases

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
Hi Kristofer, to be even more exact and correct: I need not just proportionality in the ordered list as a whole (i.e. meaning proportional ranking), but also that seats/candidates are quoted in proportionally, i.e. that the quoted-in candidates are proportionally distributed. That should be the

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Jameson Quinn
2013/2/6 Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com Jameson, I am not sure if we understand each other here. I am looking for an election system, where the quoted-in seat gives (or moves toward) a proportional distribution of the quoted-in gender. If we fix the seats which will be quoted-in at no. 2

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 02/06/2013 08:56 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2013/2/6 Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com mailto:pzbor...@gmail.com Jameson, I am not sure if we understand each other here. I am looking for an election system, where the quoted-in seat gives (or moves toward) a proportional

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
No, only one election, please, no meta-elections. Two elections would take too much time. Thanks for your understanding. PZ 2013/2/6 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com: On 02/06/2013 08:56 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2013/2/6 Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com mailto:pzbor...@gmail.com

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Zbornik
Say twenty, for instance. We might have situations, where we will fill for instance 12 seats (quotas for each triple of seats) and have 30 candidates, as an extreme case. I wanted to focus on the most important case, which is the top five seats. The 12 seats/30 candidates case is an extreme, if

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-06 Thread James Gilmour
Although you do not appear to favour STV-PR to address your problem, I should have made it clear in my post, copied below, that there is only ONE election. That is to determine the set of successful candidates who have to be ordered for the list. There is then a succession of COUNTS of the