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
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
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
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
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
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!
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