[EM] STV can be hand counted...

[Stephane Rouillon]

I apologize: my mistake.

First I ment long not hard and second if you've got the (wo)manpower it is not really long.
I'm sorry it was the feeling I got after resolving alone 12 elections of 15 candidates and 15 voters.
So please everyone, I remove that opinion,
STV is perfectly feasible by hand in a reasonnable time, with enough persons knowing what they do.

Sorry, Stephane.
At least I learned what "rubbish" means...

James Gilmour a écrit :

> Stephane Rouillon a écrit :
>
> > STV is hard to resolve without a computer.
>
> Sorry, Stephane, but I just have to say "rubbish".
> STV-PR has been done with paper ballots and hand sorting and hand counting in Ireland for Dáil and
> local Council elections since 1920 and in Northern Ireland for Assembly and District Council
> elections since 1973.  Of course, a simple electronic calculator helps, and a simple computer
> program might help a bit more.  But practical experience for more than 80 years has shown that
> STV-PR can be implemented perfectly well for major public elections with nothing more than pencil
> and paper and hand sorting and counting.
>
> >.. Even if I think
> > it is the actual best method for multiple-winners using
> > relatively large districts, I would not recommend it to
> > persons doing hand counts...
>
> Computerisation, with electronic voting, may be the way forward, but there are still some problems
> to be overcome.  But these problems relate to the voting method (electronic without an audit trail)
> and NOT to the voting system, ie STV-PR.
> James
>
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