[EM] Methods of elimination in quota preferential STV

[David Catchpole]

I don't quite get you. Are you asking about alternatives to exclusion?

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, LAYTON Craig wrote:

> Yep, but I was considering the basis for excluding candidates in the first
> place.  If, for a moment, you accept the system of electing by quotas and
> distributing surplus votes at fractional values (an assumption I might be
> less inclined to make after I've looked more closely at Craig Carey's
> arguments), the basis for eliminating candidates when you get to a round of
> voting in which there is no candidate with a quota is still something that
> doesn't seem very clear.  In fact, once the eliminated candidates'
> preferences start affecting the count, the result seems to become
> increasingly arbitrary.
> 
> >Hi Layton,
> >
> >where Nc is the number of candidates remaining that have not been elected
> >or excluded, one can conduct a "sub" STV election of Nc-1 candidates. The
> >candidate left over can be excluded.
> 
> 

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