[EM] Donald's Reply to Robertas' Request for Opinion:

[Anthony Duff]

Just a reaction to one little thing that Donald said...

 --- Donald Davison <donald at mich.com> wrote: > 
> Hi Robertas,
...

> If an election is supposed to be a non-partisan election, then the Hare
> quota should be used with STV.  The Hare will not average the votes of the
> candidates of any party nor faction.  Hare quota will treat all the
> candidates as if they were running as independents.  If the policy of the
> election is not to help any party nor faction by not having the method
> average the votes of the parties, then a legal law should also be included
> which forbids anyone from doing anything to average votes at the ballot
> box, such as, handing out `How to Vote Cards".

Such a law would amount to a law against free communication between voters.
The law would be a bigger insult to democracy than the problem it tries to prevent.
Freedom of communication is far more important than the prevention of exploitation of a
feature of a voting system.

Anthony

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