RE: [EM] recommendations Australia's STV/party list not so bad

2004-09-01 Thread Anthony Duff
--- James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Duff Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:18 AM I think James exaggerates. Now who is exaggerating? We all know about the table cloth ballot paper in the NSW election of March 1999. But in the Federal Senate elections the numbers are

RE: [EM] recommendations Australia's STV/party list not so bad

2004-08-31 Thread James Gilmour
Anthony Duff Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:18 AM --- James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The facility for party voting in the Australian Federal Senate STV-PR elections is a gross perversion of STV. It has reduced STV to just another party list PR system. Background: The

RE: [EM] recommendations Australia's STV/party list not so bad

2004-08-30 Thread Anthony Duff
--- James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The facility for party voting in the Australian Federal Senate STV-PR elections is a gross perversion of STV. It has reduced STV to just another party list PR system. Background: The ballot is divided into two by a horizontal line. Below the