[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racialminorities

[Juho]

On Aug 17, 2008, at 21:34 , James Gilmour wrote:

> There is no evidence, apart from Australia which has both  
> compulsory voting and compulsory marking of preferences, that  
> marking all
> the preferences you want is in any way inconvenient for the voters.

Maybe the interesting question is if voters mark sufficiently many  
candidates so that their vote is not "lost".

Are there any statistics from real STV-PR elections on how many votes  
(sum of fragments) run out of candidates during the counting process?

Juho





	
	
		
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