Donald Davison wrote:
If the voters wanted a candidate of the same party they would have selected
someone of the same party as the runner-up. If we don't want to rework the
ballots from the original election then we should merely select the first
runner-up as the person to fill the vacancy.
Now suppose 1 green, 2 democrats and 4 reps are gone.
The by-election gives the following distribution:
Rep 40%
Dem 55%
Green 5%
So we have Rep(49 seats) that sould go to 40, Dem(37 seats) that should go to
55
and Greens (7 seats) that should go to 5 seats. Because we do not remove seats
With STV the results could be recalculated with preferences for the
original winner ignored. There's a chance that could upset the rest of
the seats though (non-monotonicity).
How about this: Recount using STV, ignoring the vacating candidate, but with one
difference: Never eliminate any
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:03:49 -0800, Dan Keshet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a little presumptious of me to make suggestions regarding
electionmethods.org as I have nothing invested in it, but I think it would be
good to turn it into an election methods wiki.
Incidentally, I brought up
