On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Paul Kislanko wrote: > In any case, they called it "Instant Run-off" but when they described > the method it sounded to me to be what this list would call Single > Transferable Vote - (the ballots whose 1st place candidate receives the > fewest first place votes in the first counting are treated as if the second > place candidate was ranked first in the second round, and so on). > > If that is what IRV is, what is the difference between IRV and STV?
How many candidates got elected? If only one, it was IRV; if more than one STV. Or you can see it as IRV being the single-winner version of STV, if you like. Diana. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
