On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:15 , Raph Frank wrote: > >> A party ideally, wants candidates who don't get elected (so >> they get 'free' votes) or candidates who get more than 1 quota, so the >> party gets the excess (more 'free' votes). > > Yes, not quite ideally though since more votes is always better than less. > Maybe "the party" would (in open lists) like some of its candidates to get a > bit less votes if it beats some "favourite candidate of the party" with few > votes.
Right, though that would fall into the category of "candidates who don't get elected". Ofc, this was assuming that the candidate in question wasn't really a member of the party and was just being invited for mercenary reasons to benefit the 'real' members of the party. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
