http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/01/politics-snp-budget-defeat The SNP's defeated budget may yet prove to be a blessing * Jim Wallace * The...
Dear proportionalvoters, As you may know, British Columbia will vote on whether to adopt STV (choice voting) on May 12, 2009. With some BC people, I have...
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Opponents of electoral reform in British Columbia have claimed that if BC-STV were implemented, all the MLAs in the rural districts would come from the biggest...
In British Columbia some opponents of electoral reform have claimed that STV always "wastes" a near quota of votes - those credited to the finally excluded...
Choice Plus Pro produces such a report automatically. This is what it shows for the 1999 Cambridge, Massachusetts results (where 9 seats were up for...
... I am always brushed off, but I have long held that it is poor practice to keep two sets of books and that this question must be answered by the counting...
Steve Chessin > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:24 AM ... Yes, on the basis of the data you presented, I would say that 97% of those who had voted were...
Terry Bouricius > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:46 PM ... As you may already have seen from the PV list, both "Direct Republic" and Steve Chessin have...
Choice voting (the single transferable vote form of proportional representation) needs 60% to win. It won 58% in 2004. The vote is next month. Rob ######### . ...
This was the most closely contested bylaws proposal -- recommended on a 5-4 vote -- so your input for the benefit of those delegates who will be voting on this...
Rob Latham Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:52 AM ... Do you know why they propose to limit the number of rankings a delegate may mark to TEN? Why are the...
... How many seats are being filled? The existing system appears to be "vote for five". If we're ranking 10 for 5 seats, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it...
Jonathan Lundell > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:01 PM ... Data from the 2007 STV counts for the Northern Ireland Assembly, where all the 18 constituencies (=...
... That sounds entirely plausible. I'd make a distinction between the number of rounds and the difficulty of the count, though, on grounds that an elimination...
Jonathan Lundell > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:57 PM ... I'm not sure there will be much difference between an elimination round and a surplus-distribution...
The Libertarian party is considering whether or not to adopt the Single Transferable Vote for electing "at large" members of their National Committee. The...
John B. Hodges > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:29 AM ... What is difficult to administer with STV-PR? James Gilmour No virus found in this outgoing...
Certainly an idea worth getting out there, John, but I suspect the LP will not like it for its voting (it's very constricting to voters) and that it's going to...
Rob and all, Why does the proposal's paragraph b limit delegates to "rank[ing] up to ten candidates on their ballots in order of preference"? I can see using ...
... There's been some discussion floating around of a kind of STV-with- delegation. One variation is that each candidate publishes their own ranked list. A...
John B. Hodges > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 8:02 PM ... But no-one would ever do a manual "count" of STV ballots in that way because it involves so much...
... Your comments are fair enough, I think the last point I would want to make is that Candidate List, like Party List, would allow more seats per district...
John B. Hodges > Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:08 PM ... That is part of the question, but only part of the question - at least in political cultures where...
Under its current bylaws, there are five at-large seats on the Libertarian National Committee. Â LNC Chairman Bill Redpath's proposal to eliminate regional...
This simple 6-minute video is a really good pitch for voting yes on single transferable vote (i.e.,, choice voting) in British Columbia. there's been hundreds...
(JBH 05/24/09; This is actually a test message. I'm changing my email address, and want to see if the change worked. But the following is an old classic, and...
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