[EM] Good news - BC voters reject STV

[Kathy Dopp]

FYI,

http://www.penmachine.com/2009/05/bc-voters-prefer-lame-status-quo

The voters of BC were intelligent to reject STV because STV's
inequitable treatment of voters' ballots (counting only some voters'
2nd and 3rd choices and not counting the 2nd choices of a large group
of voters' whose 1st choice loses in the final counting round and not
counting many voters' 2nd and 3rd choices until after those candidates
have been eliminated) causes so many undesirable problems including
electing majority *opposed* candidates and eliminating majority
favored candidates, nonmonotonicity, eliminating many voters before
the final counting round, making central counting necessary, making
the counting complex to do by hand, making auditing the accuracy of
the results very difficult, etc.

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Kathy Dopp

The material expressed herein is the informed  product of the author's
fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician,
Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll
discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at

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Post-Election Vote Count Audit
A Short Legislative & Administrative Proposal
http://electionmathematics.org//ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Vote-Count-Audit-Bill-2009.pdf

History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election Auditing Fundamentals
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf

Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf