Article on Davis's Measure L (STV/choice voting) in the alternative weekly Sacramento News & Review. Pretty substantive on the issue for the piece's length: ...
... It's an interesting concept. It's like Closed Party List, except each candidate creates their own party, and a candidate can be on the list of more than...
There's a new site in the UK that has been in beta testing for the past couple months: http://www.stvaction.org.uk It's for STV supporters. You can log in,...
... Which version of STV do you have in mind: Cambridge (MA.), Dail Eireann, Gregory Method (Northern Ireland, ERS76, ERS97), IGM, WIGM, or Meek? James...
One of the simpler ones (e.g. static threshold) -- like WIGM. See here for an example of what I'm thinking of: http://davischoicevoting.org/ftp/count_votes.pdf...
It depend of which STV method you are using. The bests methods are more complicated than the others. The best thing is to select a method, and then use a...
Good news to enjoy with your Saturday morning coffee: http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/39196.html ... Editorial: A worthy experiment Davis: Yes on Measure L,...
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=17b95268-abde-4d9d-971d-a28870af377a&k=9414 Referendum on deck if Ont. shakes up electoral system April...
For fans of the Citizens Assembly concept who are also fans of promoting electoral reform in schools, here's an idea from the Ontario Citizens Assembly. (The...
This doesn't have much to do with PR except for the line towards the beginning about "combining the confusion of a 1700s electoral system with the other lack...
[I'll add one comment that John disagrees with many reformers on this list about instant runoff voting and Condorcet systems. His proposal of course also could...
The reporter didn't catch everything quite the way I said it (for instance, I talked about British Columbia and Scotland in the context of how choice voting...
Folks, Bill Redpath, our long-time board treasurer and current chairman of the Libertarian Party, is scheduled to be on CSPAN's "Washington Journal" program...
The votes aren't all in, but the Minneapolis campaign for instant runoff voting for major city offices and choice voting for some of the down ballot city...
Hey everybody, To keep tabs on Davis Choice Voting Measure L, you can go here: http://www.yoloelections.org/returns/ I will have my cell phone with me:...
For the benefit of any Canadians who might google into this site, will people please try to keep saying "IRV (which is not a proportional voting system) . . ."...
Article in Sacramento Bee: November 9, 2006 - Sacramento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/74027.html Consider choice voting, Davis says BY ERIKA CHAVEZ ...
An important point to remember is that, for elections of U.S. Representatives, PR or runoff elections could be mandated at the national level. ... * U.S....
... Yes. This was part of the voting rights legislation, to prevent minority representation from being suppressed by states that elected their delegations at...
[In answer to Jack's question below, FairVote's website has some good history of the single-member district law. See: - long college thesis that is well-done: ...
For our institutional memory, this was the lead letter to the editor in the special November 20, 2006 issue of TIME on the midterm elections.... Posted Sunday,...
I don't think we are talking about the same subject. I live in Florida and don't doubt the possibility that at-large districts could have been contemplated as...
i did a search of the past messages and could not find any discussion on the following. what size districts do you find would work best with PRV? personally, i...
Bryan, There is a lot of academic literature relevant to your question. One the most important books, and a good place to start, is Rein Taagepera and Matthew...
... discussion on the following. What size districts do you find would work best with PRV? On the assumption that by "PRV" you mean "STV-PR", I don't think ...
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