[EM] Non-Transferable Votes - Cork and Cambridge

Donald E Davison donald at mich.com
Sun Sep 26 16:19:57 PDT 1999


Dear Markus,

     Thank you for the information about Cork.
     11 percent is about the same percentage the Cambridge, Mass elections
get in exhausted votes, or as you say: "Non-Transferable".

Donald,
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>Dear Donald,
>
>Enid Lakeman wrote ("How Democracies Vote," Faber
>and Faber, London, 1970, page 121): "Cork for many
>years voted as a single unit to elect all its 21
>City Councillors, and by the end of the 54 counts
>involved in its 1950 election only 11 per cent of
>the papers had become non-transferable."
>
>Markus Schulze




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