[EM] announcing software for computing STV

2003-10-19 Thread Jeffrey O'Neill
Dear List Members, I've just released software from computing various forms of STV (SNTV, IRV, Random Transfer, Fractional Transfer, and Meek). You can download the source and a windows executable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stv I am looking for feedback from people and also for peopl

Re: [EM] Kevin, you wrote on 4 Oct '03

2003-10-19 Thread Kevin Venzke
Dave, --- Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Let's do it slowly: Strange that you assume I didn't understand your point. You said you think fractional votes are "reasonable." I only said I thought they're "undesirable." Then, in this message, you say you "make no sense" of my point.

[EM] Remainders and the Ranking of Political Parties:

2003-10-19 Thread Donald Davison
Greetings list members, If voters were allowed to rank the political parties then the lowest remainder could be transferred to the other parties according to the percentages of the next choices of all the voters of a party. This would be something like using Irving to deal with the remainders in