[EM] Re: [stv-voting] STV anomaly - Part of my vote went to someone who was not on my li

[Colin Rosenstiel]

> Once a candidate is eliminated or elected, those ballots which had him 
> listed first, have the remaining preferences, after the next one, 
> ignored.
> 
> Where I get hung up, is the fact that ALL of the votes of an eliminated 
> candidate gets re-allocated to the next preferred candidate on the 
> list, ignoring any of remaining preferences on that voter's ballot.

Eh? This is just not true. Votes are transferred in the order of 
preference of the supporters of the excluded candidate. It's an _order_ 
and the next preference is taken up while it can affect the fate of that 
candidate.

It's a _single_ _transferable_ vote.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Chairman, Electoral Reform Society
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/
mailto:ers at reform.demon.co.uk