[EM] Low tech p.r. election method.

[Craig Carey]

At 15:53 24.12.99 , DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

This method is untested or badly designed.

Suppose there is only 1 candidate and only 1 member needs to be elected
 in the region (R = 1).

>A low tech (repeat, low tech) legislative body p.r. election method.
>
>If p.r. is to be used to elect a state legislature ...


...
>Districts
>
>(a) The [area] shall be divided into D districts electing a total of R 
>Representatives at least [280] days before the election.
...
>(e) The candidate with the lowest number of votes in all districts shall lose 
>and shall have his/her votes transferred to the remaining unelected candidate 
>highest on his/her rank order list (if any).

Five candidates were needed, there were only five to choose those winners
 from, and one of the candidates that should not have been rejected was
 discarded by step "(e)" (and similarly in step "(c)" below).

>[(f) Any candidate having more than the total votes divided by R shall be 
>elected and shall have his/her excess votes transferred to the remaining 
>unelected candidate highest on his/her rank order list (if any).]
>(g) The preceding shall repeat until R candidates remain who shall be elected.
...

>
>At Large
>
>(a) Each elector may vote for 1 candidate.
>(b) Before the election starts, each candidate may submit a rank order list 
>of the other candidates.
>(c) The candidate with the lowest number of votes shall lose and shall have 
>his/her votes transferred to the remaining unelected candidate highest on 
>his/her rank order list (if any).
>[(d) Any candidate having more than the total votes divided by R shall be 
>elected and ...




Mr G. A. Craig Carey, Auckland, New Zealand