[EM] Re: Meek and Newland-Britton

[Dgamble997 at aol.com]

Chris Benham wrote:

> CB: I haven't yet made up my mind what the best ranked-ballot PR method 
> is yet, but if the ballots are symetrically completed,
> and then those ballots that ranked A first are all  fractioanlly 
> devalued by an amount that sums to a Droop quota (180/3 = 60),
> then the winners are A and C.
> 

Symmetric completion ( that if you symmetrically completed the ballots you 
would elect the Meek winning set not the Newland-Britton winning) came up as a 
strong argument in favour of Meek in the discussion I was having.

Thanks for the example from Woodall showing how symmetric completion can 
potentially give a different result to reducing the quota.

David Gamble
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