Open and Closed Lists (was ...STV for Candidate...)

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

D- 

With proxy p.r. there might be zero wasted votes.

Mr. Salmi-

I can understand this only if you vote for parties you don't like. It ought
to be possible with STV and the Hare quota if you have to indicate all
possible preferences.

D- The forced transfer of surpluses using STV is quite arbitrary -- related 
to the forced arbitrary transfer of votes using IRV.

The STV results for the Nov. 2001 election for the Cambridge, Mass (U.S.A.) 
City Council are now available via

http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~Election/

14 rounds of counting for 9 seats

9.98 percent of the votes were wasted due to the use of the Droop Quota..

In connection with the data -- see the Voting in Cambridge link at

http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~Election/prop-voting.html