[EM] Re: CR/Approval

2003-09-25 Thread Kevin Venzke
Chris, Replying publicly again... --- Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Kevin, > I am not completely clear on how exactly that a candidate that has > been marked as "not viable" loses that status. > By overtaking one of the "viable" candidates perhaps? Right. Viability is

RE: [EM] Request for opinion

2003-09-25 Thread James Gilmour
Robertas Without doubt, STV-PR is likely to be the best voting system to deal with the problems you describe in Lithuania. STV-PR puts the power in the hands of the voters rather than in the hands of the parties. STV-PR encourages collaboration rather than fragmentation. STV-PR treats all candidat

RE: [EM] Request for opinion

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Gazeley
Dear Robertas In the United Kingdom, municipalities are already divided into areas ("wards") each of which returns 2, 3 or 4 councillors. The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh is about to bring in PR for local government in Scotland and has chosen STV. Of course, there is a tradition of using STV

[EM] Schulze; Beatpath Method; Schwartz Sequential Dropping

2003-09-25 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear participants, since 1997, I promote my own single-winner election method. This method is sometimes called "Beatpath Method" or "Schwartz Sequential Dropping" and it is used by SPI and DEBIAN. I have written a paper in which I give a simple description of this method and an O(NumberOfCandidat

[EM] Request for opinion

2003-09-25 Thread robertas pogorelis
Hello, I am new to the list, and glad to discover that its so active. I am a political scientist currently based at Leuven, Belgium, though originally coming from Lithuania. I have been asked by the working group of the Lithuanian Parliament to produce an expert opinion about possible changes

Re: [EM] Methods, and the criteria they satisfy

2003-09-25 Thread Diana Galletly
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Diana Galletly wrote: ^^ [my original article, which disappeared into the ether for nearly a week before mysteriously appearing on the list now, snipped] Sorry about that; God knows what happened there! Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em