[EM] ESD Candidates update

[Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon]

In case you would be interested...

Minimal number of members for single winner methods election n.3
was locked at 24.
Minimal number of members for multiple winners methods election n.3
is locked at 28.

Actual Candidates for the next single-winner iteration are:

A)Alternative Vote or Instant Run-off Voting
  http://condorcet.org/emr/methods.shtml
  (Donald Davison)

B)Ranked Pairs with margins
  http://condorcet.org/emr/methods.shtml
  (Blake Cretney)

C)Approval Vote
  http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/
  (Rob LeGrand)

D)Plain Condorcet with winning votes
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/41
  (Mike Ossipoff)

E)Ranked Pairs with winning votes
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/41
  (Mike Ossipoff)

F)Beatpath Winner with winning votes
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/41
  (Mike Ossipoff)

G)Top Two Runoff - French presidential system
  http://www.mich.com/~donald/single.html
  (Donald Davison)

H)Cumulative Single-Seat
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/62
  (Donald Davison)

I)Ranked pairs using relative margins
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/77
  (Stephane Rouillon)

J)Ranked pairs using relative margins, sequential dropping and
  residual approval weights
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/77
  (Stephane Rouillon)

K)Alternative Vote (or IRV) using residual approval weights
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/73
  (Stephane Rouillon)

L)Normalized Ratings
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Electoral_systems_designers/message/85
  (Tom Ruen)


Actual Candidates for the next multiple-winners iteration are:

A)Mixed Member Proportional representation with usual
  districts, Tideman with margins and open lists
  http://www.fairvotecanada.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=22&forum=1&1
  (Stephane Rouillon)

B)Hare-Davison - A New STV Election Method - with +/- 10% electorate
  variations and constituencies with 5 to 7 members
  http://www.mich.com/~donald/instant.html#Hare-D
  (Donald Davison)

C)Preference Voting - STV with Droop Quota - +/- 10% electorate
  variations and constituencies with 5 to 7 members
  http://www.mich.com/~donald/instant.html
  (Donald Davison)

and maybe more to come...

Steph.

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