[EM] Reply to David Catchpole

[David Catchpole]

What's not included is the number of votes exhausted while they were
distributed from losing candidates to other losing candidates- which are 
of importance, especially when we're talking about the one notion party.

The report (aargh! PDF!) would include details of how optional giving
preferences was... I get the feeling that NSW LC elections are more or
less "optional preferential" in AusPolLang which means that for one's vote
to be valid, only a small number of preferences need be given (this "small
number" may vary from 1 to just over half of the number to be elected to
the number to be elected- it depends).

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Donald E Davison wrote:

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - August 25 1999, 9 pm
> David Catchpole,
> 
>      Thank you for trying to find the numbers.
>      If we can find the number of votes each of 21 winning candidates
> received, then it is possible to determine the number of exhausted and
> wasted votes.
>      We already know the total number of voters.
>      I would also like to know if the voters are required to make a certain
> number of choices.
> 
> Thank you again,
> Donald
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> >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:
> >
> 
> 
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