On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM, James Gilmour
jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk wrote:
The first statement seems logical, but I don't know about the second
statement.
I don't understand how an elected candidate could
be eliminated - sounds like a contradiction of terms.
Well, if you just re-run
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
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
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
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
On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Raph Frank wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Juho juho4...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The hysteresis function may increase the strategic opportunities
since
voters could trust that old representatives will be elected in any
case and
they could try free riding. But
On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Raph Frank wrote:
Also, there is a philosophical argument. The effect of the count
back procedure is that people who have died/left the constituency
since the last election get their vote counted, while new adults/
people who have move into the constituency
On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Raph Frank wrote:
Also, there is a philosophical argument. The effect of the count
back procedure is that people who have died/left the constituency
since the last election get their vote counted, while new
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Juho juho4...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The hysteresis function may increase the strategic opportunities since
voters could trust that old representatives will be elected in any case and
they could try free riding. But in real life small hysteresis may well not
be too
