Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:37:04 -0400
From: Tim Hull
Subject: [EM] Cumulative Voting with Elimination - idea for simple PR
system...
1. Voters vote for up to n candidates - n being either # of open seats or #
of candidates
2. Each voter has one vote equally and evenly divided among the
The example from Slovenia is just normal cumulative voting without
elimination - that was also used in the Illinois House of Representatives
until 1980... As far as letting voters give 1 for a first-place vote, 1/2
for a second-place vote, 1/3 for a third-place vote, that's just a variant
on the
