> Once a candidate is eliminated or elected, those ballots which had him > listed first, have the remaining preferences, after the next one, > ignored. > > Where I get hung up, is the fact that ALL of the votes of an eliminated > candidate gets re-allocated to the next preferred candidate on the > list, ignoring any of remaining preferences on that voter's ballot.
Eh? This is just not true. Votes are transferred in the order of preference of the supporters of the excluded candidate. It's an _order_ and the next preference is taken up while it can affect the fate of that candidate. It's a _single_ _transferable_ vote. -- Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel Chairman, Electoral Reform Society http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info