On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Alex Small wrote: > In your original post yesterday I believe you said you were intereted in > referenda. In the US, referenda usually refer to yes/no questions on a > proposed law. Are there multi-option referenda in the UK, or do you mean > something else?
Cambridge University is somewhat ... special. Matters are proposed, amendments are suggested, and an IRV ballot is conducted between them (at the moment; revision is strongly on the cards after what I've pointed out over the past few months!) > If you're looking for a real-world single-winner election with 10 > candidates and ranked ballots, a private group in the US is in the process > of conducting one right now. A group of libertarian activists have > decided that, since a 3rd party can't win easily in a place that uses > plurality voting and single member districts, they'll concentrate all of > their efforts on a single small state. Their goal is to move 20,000 > activists to that one state. I'm not involved (and I don't plan to get > involved), but I have a friend who is. That could well be interesting as well. But if I can get the raw data from these rather close-run IRV `referenda+' (which seems very much more likely now than I thought would be possible -- the mention of research seems to have done the trick) I think there might be some fascinating results. As I said, real world data is the vital thing, though, so any data is useful. I'm fed up of being accused of coming up with contrived examples! Diana. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
