[EM] 04/10/02 - Reply to Stéphane:

[Donald Davison]

04/10/02 - Reply to Stéphane:

Donald wrote:
>It should be rare, but it is possible for the average votes of a party
>to be greater than the quota.  If this happens, enough surplus votes
>are to be transferred from the sum of the party and party candidate
>votes such that the average is reduced down to the quota.

Stéphane wrote:
"Could you give an example to illustrate what you mean with this last
paragraph?  Maybe I did not get the way you transfer both the votes in
favour of a candidate and the votes in favour of parties (if those are
transferred too)..."

Dear Stéphane,
    I will attempt to answer your questions.  Suppose the XYZ Party and its
candidates receive more quotas of votes than the number of candidates it
has running.  That will result in an average votes per candidate being
greater than the quota.  (The XYZ Party should run more candidates than
enough to cover the expected votes to be received.)

    The surplus votes will be transferred, but not to the XYZ Party and its
candidates, that is, not to each other.

Example: Votes received by XYZ Party and it candidates:  Quota is 2000:

          XYZ Party        4200
          XYZ candidate A  1200
          XYZ candidate B  1100
          XYZ candidate C  1000
          XYZ candidate D   900
                          ------
                 Total     8400

  Average votes per candidate is 2100, which is more than the quota.
  400 surplus votes are to be transferred:
  Transfer Value is 400/8400 or 1/21
  This transfer value is applied to every ballot (8400) received by the XYZ
Party and its candidates.
  After the transfer, these four candidates are considered to be elected.

Stéphane: "Do you rank parties too or do you just pick one?"

Donald: Each voter is free to rank both candidates and parties together in
any mix.


Regards,
   Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald

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