[EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax abd at lomaxdesign.com
Thu Sep 10 06:54:10 PDT 2009


At 09:14 AM 9/10/2009, Raph Frank wrote:
>One issue with PR-STV is that there is no clear way to handle byelection.

Use Asset Voting. It was developed for a similar problem, by Lewis 
Carroll (Charles Dodgson), 1884.

Let the unassigned, unused fractions of votes revert to the 
candidates in first choice position on those ballots and let them 
recast those votes. 




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