[EM] New South Wales election - per Markus Schulze

[David Catchpole]

Australian Electoral Commissions have a nasty habit of publishing
bugger-all details on the web. I'll try to find the statistical returns
in my university library today.

Another opportunity to observe large STV elections is coming up with the
NSW Local Government elections. Any details you receive on these would be
from individual councils' webpages. A place to start would be
http://www.nsw.gov.au . An example- Sydney City Council, a
geographically small (well, at least compared to Brisbane) inner-city
authority, has more than one hundred candidates.

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Donald E Davison wrote:

> Dear Markus Schulze,
> 
>      Thank you for posting the information on the New South Wales election.
> 
>      I hope you have more details.
>      I would like to know the number or percent of exhausted ballots.
>      With that large a number of candidates, I would think that the number
> of exhausted ballots would also be large.
>      Or, maybe the voters do not have optional preferences.
>      Can you give us these details?
> 
> Regards,
> Donald
> 
> 
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