[EM] Fractional STV for PR -CORRECTION
James Green-Armytage
jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Sun Aug 29 15:04:44 PDT 2004
jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk writes:
>James Green-Armytage > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:07 AM
>> However, surprisingly, the fractional transfer issue
>> doesn't end there. Note that in STV-PR, candidate
>> eliminations happen before surplus transfers.
>
>James, where did you get this statement? As written, it is wrong. If
>you had written "candidate
>eliminations CAN happen before surplus transfers", you would have been
>correct.
James, forgive me. Yes, I was writing carelessly, and got it exactly
backwards. Surplus transfers generally happen before candidate
eliminations. If you plug that correction into what I wrote, the rest of
it should make sense.
my apologies,
James G-A
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