[EM] VoteFair representation ranking recommended for Czech Green Party

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 09:54:38 PDT 2010


2010/4/29 robert bristow-johnson <rbj at audioimagination.com>

>
> On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>  STV uses IRV.
>>
>
>
> i thought it was the other way around.  no?  really, isn't "STV" the more
> technical term (that is descriptive of what is happening in those rounds)
> and "IRV" or "RCV" or "PV" or whatever are the terms used to present to the
> public?
>

We're both right, in different senses. You're right on the terminology. But
I was using the terms in a non-standard way. I was saying that, aside from
the elect-and-discount mechanism which it shares with VoteFair, RBV, RRV,
etc., PR-STV has another mechanism: bottom up elimination, a la IRV.

JQ
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