[EM] Vermont's Two Member Districts
Tom Round
T.Round at mailbox.gu.edu.au
Sun May 16 21:19:46 PDT 1999
Sorry if I have missed an answer already given, but ... What particular
voting system does Vermont use in the 2-seat districts? Block vote (ie, 2
x's), or a single non-transferable vote, or some form of PR? Tom.
At 12:17 PM 5/17/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Am I right in assuming that the two-member districts are in areas with
>reasonably high votes for the parties that prior to the election were
>non-majority parties?
>
>On Sat, 15 May 1999, Donald E Davison wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> In April I asked the question: "What is the smallest change that will
>> yield the most improvement in an election method - for the size of the
>> change?"
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Tom Round
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