Dear Steve, you wrote to Mike Ossipoff (21 Jan 2003): > Are you sure you didn't mean to say "Michigan," rather than > "Wisconsin." The quote you provided in a later message say > Michigan, not Wisconsin. I know that the "Second Choice" > method was used here (WI) in the statewide election of 1914, > but that is a form of the IRV method, not Nanson's. Can you > provide the quote which claims Wisconsin (not Michigan) used > Nanson's method?
I guess that Mike mixed up Wisconsin and Michigan. Mike wrote (10 Feb 1996): > Nanson's method repeatedly eliminates the candidate with > lowest Borda score. It was used in a Wisconsin city at one > time, and still is proposed once in a while. In so far as Mike was talking about citywide elections and not about statewide elections and in so far as the Nanson method has also been used in a Michigan city, Mike would have also mentioned this Michigan city if he hadn't already been talking about this Michigan city. In short: This "Wisconsin city" seems to be Marquette, Michigan. Tom Round wrote (7 Jan 1997): > Nanson's method, according to McLean, was adopted by the > following bodies: > a) Trinity College (the Anglican residential college of Uni > of Melbourne) > b) elections to the Assembly and Canonry of the Melbourne > Anglican Diocese > c) the University of Melbourne, 1926-82, for election of its > University Councillors and academic committees. > d) since 1968, election of the Council of the University of > Adelaide > e) the municipal elections of Marquette, Michigan, in the > 1920s. Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
