Re: STV-PR Re: [EM] Using weights to compensate multiple votes (It's mostly about PR)

2004-08-25 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Ernie, you wrote (25 Aug 2004): > With STV-PR, is there any way to preserve 'weak' locality? That > is, say I have district magnitude of 20, so I can conceptually identify > 20 subdistricts which have been combined into a single district for PR > purposes. Now, for the extreme cases where

Re: [EM] Using weights to compensate multiple votes (It's mostly about PR)

2004-08-25 Thread Adam Tarr
For those who didn't read the appendix - here's a brief summary of Belgium's elections.  Party list voting decides the number of seats per party.  Within a given party, you may either vote for the standard party order, in which case your vote is treated like a STV vote, or you may vote for multipl

Re: [EM] Using weights to compensate multiple votes (It's mostly about PR)

2004-08-25 Thread Philippe Errembault
I think there something I didn't realise before writing this... I'm not in the frame of electing one! person and the point is that it changes everything... Maybe I shouldn't have made the analogy with approval system. PR systems are s different from election for one person which are usualy disc