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

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Salmi wrote-

You seem to disapprove of the Droop quota. I don't think we can really
avoid wasted votes
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D- For legislative body elections there can be proxy p.r. -- NO wasted votes.

Sample  3 seats, 100 voters

Final results (after vote transfers from losers) --

   Voting Power

B  40
E  35
G  25

  100

STV/Droop would have the winners getting 26 each with 22 wasted votes.

Expand the math for larger legislative bodies.

Of course, for executive/judicial elections there may be 50 percent minus 1 
wasted votes -- See each U.S.A. President election since 1832 --- with some 
President losers even getting more popular votes than the de facto winner 
(due to the totally evil ANTI-Democracy machinations of the Electoral 
College) -- as in Nov. 2000.