[EM] PR in student government...

[raphfrk at netscape.net]

  Bob Richard electorama at robertjrichard.com wrote:
 >
 > The (alleged) complexity of STV is entirely a matter of the counting
 > process; the task for the voter is actually very simple. Having said
 > that, the conventional ways of explaining the count invariably lose
 > audiences, and we need to learn how to present it better.
 
 There was a site which proposed this as an STV-PR method.
 
 Quote = votes/(seats + 1) , rounded up
 
 go through each vote in order
 
 assign vote to highest ranked remaining candidate on ballot
 remaining means not elected or eliminated
 
 a candidate is elected if he reaches the quota
 
 When the pool of votes is empty, eliminating the lowest candidate and
 return ballots assigned to him to the pool
 
 keep going until the number of candidates = number of elected candidates
 
 It does have the disadvantage that the order of the votes could have an
 effect, this leads to some randomness.
 
 It might be easier to explain. The real problem with PR-STV is the
 fractional transfers. They are not very easy to explain.
 
    Raphfrk
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