Juho > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:29 PM > > On Aug 17, 2008, at 20:05 , Raph Frank wrote: > > The problem for parties is that the surplus doesn't remain within the > > party and leads to a vote management strategy. (If none of their > > candidates have a large surplus, then they get to keep most of the > > personal votes for any of their candidates). > > This is a very interesting real life example on how such > "horizontal" preference orders may impact the elections and strategies in > them. > > Do you have a list of the strategies/tricks that are used?
See "Campaigning Under STV - A guide for agents and parties" http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/downloads/Proof%201%20Cam%20under%20STV%20-%20Update-1.pdf This was originally written for the political parties in Scotland in anticipation of the STV-PR elections for local government in May 2007. James No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.6.4/1616 - Release Date: 16/08/2008 17:12 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
