[EM] IRV in Australia (was How to Vote in Approval)

[Olli Salmi]

At 21:15 +0300 28.3.2002, Alex Small wrote:
>I poked around on the web site of the Australian Parliament
>(www.aph.gov.au).  The House of Representatives (elected from single-member
>constituencies with IRV) has 2 main parties, a handful of independents, and
>a handful of people from one other party.  The Senate, elected by PR, has 7
>parties and a couple independents (although some parties only have one or
>two members).  I don't know the PR method used.

STV

>This more or less persuades me that IRV will not be as fruitful as one
>might hope.  It's an open question how good Approval is in practice.  I
>understand that Russia uses it for single-member elections, but half of
>their version of the House of Representatives (Duma?  can't recall) is
>elected by PR.  Although I am quite confident of the theoretical advantages
>of Approval, as a scientist I reserve final judgement until I see the data.

Russian election laws. Can you find anything resembling Approval?
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/russia_index.htm

Olli Salmi


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