[EM] proportional vote - proportional term

[Chris Benham]

mcgratsc at comcast.net wrote:

>This is a how-to question, less of a philosophical or policy question, i hope I've found the right group, apologies if not.
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>I run a small non-profit org whose Board has extolled the virtue of STV and related proportional voting processes as superior.  I must follow that guidance in the upcoming election of a small steering committee, as a test of using this for the larger Board elections next year.
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Apology accepted. You might get some help from  the STV Yahoo group:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/stv-voting/

BTW  I think your plan of re-electing 2 out of the 5 in a years time 
isn't very "proportional". Say faction A is supported by a bare
majority in both elections. After the first election A will rightly have 
3 of the 5 seats, but after the second A will be over-represented
with 4 seats.

Chris  Benham

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>This is a how-to question, less of a philosophical or policy question, i hope I've found the right group, apologies if not.
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>I run a small non-profit org whose Board has extolled the virtue of STV and related proportional voting processes as superior.  I must follow that guidance in the upcoming election of a small steering committee, as a test of using this for the larger Board elections next year.
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>My goal is to elect a 5 person committee, the three with the most support will win a 2 year term, the balance (2 ) would win a 1 year seat.  This split will allow future years to re-elect a portion of the panel.
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>I have OpenSTV as my (current) desktop ballot counter but am open to other solutions.  
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>I expect 20-30 votes to pick 5 of the 7 candidates running.  While this small number may make me lean towards a human-powered calculation, I'd prefer something more mechanical, especially because this new process will likely roll out to the bigger Board elections with hundreds of ballots cast.
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>your guidance is appreciated.
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>Scott
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