Greg Nisbet Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:31 AM
My system does not have voters voting for candidates at all. In fact,
candidates needn't even exist (theoretically of course) for my
method to be well-defined. Instead people simply vote for parties, with parties
that can't get any seats
On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
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Glad to see thinking, though we part company on some details.
On Aug 13, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
All current forms of party list proportional
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On Aug 14, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
My method can be modified fairly trivially to allow parties with a maximum
size, e.g. an independent candidate would be a party with a maximum size of
one, and simply allow surpluses to be transferred. Even the relatively naive
Gregory
are too weak to deserve a seat.
Dave Ketchum
On Aug 14, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
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On Aug 14, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
Why transfers?
At least, when I said do a CW type search for the strongest remaining
candidate, I thought of this as adequate without transfers. I do think of
quitting if the remainder are too weak:
. Anyway, quit after filling the
After reading the ballots into the N*N matrix, look for the strongest
candidate - the CW or what is found in the cycle when there is no CW.
This fills the first seat. Then amend the matrix to exclude this CW
and look in the matrix for whoever would be CW in the remainder. In
each step
All current forms of party list proportional representation have each voter
cast a vote for a single party. I say this is inadequate since a small party
can be eliminated and hence denied any representation (this is particularly
relevant if the legislature has a threshold). However, votes for a
Greg Nisbet Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:25 PM
All current forms of party list proportional representation
have each voter cast a vote for a single party. I say this is
inadequate since a small party can be eliminated and hence
denied any representation (this is particularly
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Dave Ketchum da...@clarityconnect.comwrote:
Glad to see thinking, though we part company on some details.
On Aug 13, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
All current forms of party list proportional representation have each
voter cast a vote for a single
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From: James Gilmour jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk
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Subject: Re: [EM] Preferential Party List Method Proposal
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