[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PRfavoringracialminorities

[Raph Frank]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:15 , Raph Frank wrote:
>
>> A party ideally, wants candidates who don't get elected (so
>> they get 'free' votes) or candidates who get more than 1 quota, so the
>> party gets the excess (more 'free' votes).
>
> Yes, not quite ideally though since more votes is always better than less.
> Maybe "the party" would (in open lists) like some of its candidates to get a
> bit less votes if it beats some "favourite candidate of the party" with few
> votes.

Right, though that would fall into the category of "candidates who
don't get elected".

Ofc, this was assuming that the candidate in question wasn't really a
member of the party and was just being invited for mercenary reasons
to benefit the 'real' members of the party.