[EM] proportional vote - proportional term

[Juho]

Hi,

Some quick observations.

- As Chris says, the level of proportionality with respect to  
different "opinion groups" gets lower when the number of candidates  
elected at one time gets smaller. Two would be a quite low number.

- The candidates that are elected first are not necessarily "more  
popular" than the ones that will be elected later. The first elected  
candidate could be e.g. form a smallish "party" but with only one  
candidate, which leads to electing him/her first.

- I think STV is good for elections where we don't want to emphasize  
the grouping of candidates to "separate parties" and for elections  
where the candidates are quite well known by the voters (their  
viewpoints are well known). Your Board could fit in this framework  
quite nicely.

Juho Laatu



On Apr 3, 2007, at 19:44 , Chris Benham wrote:

>
>
> mcgratsc at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> This is a how-to question, less of a philosophical or policy  
>> question, i hope I've found the right group, apologies if not.
>>
>> I run a small non-profit org whose Board has extolled the virtue  
>> of STV and related proportional voting processes as superior.  I  
>> must follow that guidance in the upcoming election of a small  
>> steering committee, as a test of using this for the larger Board  
>> elections next year.
>>
>>
>
> Apology accepted. You might get some help from  the STV Yahoo group:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/stv-voting/
>
> BTW  I think your plan of re-electing 2 out of the 5 in a years time
> isn't very "proportional". Say faction A is supported by a bare
> majority in both elections. After the first election A will rightly  
> have
> 3 of the 5 seats, but after the second A will be over-represented
> with 4 seats.
>
> Chris  Benham
>
>>
>> This is a how-to question, less of a philosophical or policy  
>> question, i hope I've found the right group, apologies if not.
>>
>> I run a small non-profit org whose Board has extolled the virtue  
>> of STV and related proportional voting processes as superior.  I  
>> must follow that guidance in the upcoming election of a small  
>> steering committee, as a test of using this for the larger Board  
>> elections next year.
>>
>> My goal is to elect a 5 person committee, the three with the most  
>> support will win a 2 year term, the balance (2 ) would win a 1  
>> year seat.  This split will allow future years to re-elect a  
>> portion of the panel.
>>
>> I have OpenSTV as my (current) desktop ballot counter but am open  
>> to other solutions.
>>
>> I expect 20-30 votes to pick 5 of the 7 candidates running.  While  
>> this small number may make me lean towards a human-powered  
>> calculation, I'd prefer something more mechanical, especially  
>> because this new process will likely roll out to the bigger Board  
>> elections with hundreds of ballots cast.
>>
>> your guidance is appreciated.
>>
>> Scott
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