[EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Raph Frank wrote:

> Also, there is a philosophical argument.  The effect of the count  
> back procedure is that people who have died/left the constituency  
> since the last election get their vote counted, while new adults/ 
> people who have move into the constituency don't get their counted.

I don't think that this is a terribly strong argument. The  
constituency that would elect the new member is the same constituency  
that elected the outgoing member, and more broadly the constituency  
that elected the entire group. We don't ordinarily call for new  
elections when voters move in and out of a district.

That's not to say that countback doesn't have its problems. But this  
doesn't strike me as a particularly serious one.