I'm new to this mailing list (so hi).
I was wondering if anyone had encountered any serious analysis of the best
method of eliminating candidates in a multi-member election counted using
quota preferential STV (Hare-Clark here in Australia). The system is
usually advocated as eliminating candidates in much the same way as IRV, so
at first glance (without the skills to model electoral systems) it seems
that all the same problems could apply, albeit with much less significant
consequences. Is there any scope for using the principles of some of the
more advanced methods in single candidate elections for eliminating
candidates in multi-member elections?
Oh, and in regards to the question of strategic voting; strategic voting (to
the extent that it effects large scale elections) seems to be extremely
unlikely in every system but plurality (where it occurs at every election).
Perhaps the current omnipresence of strategic voting has made this seem much
more of a likelyhood than it really is.
Craig Layton
