On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Raph Frank wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Juho <juho4...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> You assume that there is only one VP. > > Well, if more than 1 VP is possible, then the election could be > > - Elect council with PR-STV > - The condorcet winner (only including the councillors) is President > - Elect 2 of the councilors as VPs using PR-STV > > However, there is still the question of what exactly the VPs and > President is supposed to do. > > If they are to chair council meetings, then it is better to just elect them. > >> We could have also two and keep track >> of which members are elected first, second and third. > > I still disagree with using order of election in a PR-STV election. > It provides an additional incentive for dishonest rankings.
It also encourages strategic nominations. The whole idea of using order-of-election in STV for *anything* should be drowned in a bathtub ASAP. > > It would have most of the same problems that plurality has where you > need to vote for one of the top-2. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info