From: "R.G.'Stumpy' Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11-06-03
`Stumpy' wrote: "With STV the results could be recalculated with
preferences for the original winner ignored. There's a chance that could
upset the rest of
the seats though."
Donald here: Removing the preferences of a winning candidate
The latest issue of "Hightower's Low Down" talks about the various private
companies (and their conflicts of interest) that have been supplying the
touch screen voting machines, along with some of the hanky panky that has
already taken place.
Besides the outright scandals there are the suspicious
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Rob Brown wrote:
>
> > As I think we all agree, if you can pick a single winner, you should
> > by straightforward extension be able to rank all the candidates. In
> > ranking the candidates we have, then, linearized the matrix. If it
> > can be linear
Hallo,
since January 2003, the "Software in the Public Interest" (SPI) project
uses my beatpath method. However, they use an extreme way to handle
truncated ballots.
Wichert Akkerman wrote (7 Nov 2003):
> Vote preferences should be made by ranking the candidates. A vote
> that simply specifies "X
--- Alex Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:30:26 -0800 (PST)
>Say that a legislator resigns or dies in the middle of his term.
...
>Now, suppose we elect the legislators via PR. How to fill the vacancy?
The method of the Australian Senate is to have the party, to wh
