[EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

[Raph Frank]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The hysteresis function may increase the strategic opportunities since
> voters could trust that old representatives will be elected in any case and
> they could try free riding. But in real life small hysteresis may well not
> be too problematic.

Maybe you could play around with the quota.  For example, the Droop
quota could be used for sitting representatives and the Hare quota for
everyone else.

Staggering of elections, so that there isn't a single election day,
may or may not be a good thing.  Would it mean that the government is
always in campaign mode or would it never be in campaign mode.