[EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Peter Zbornik,

you wrote (9 May 2010):

> You wrote On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:59 PM:
> "I recommend that you should solve indecisive situations by
> using the numbers of the member ID cards of the candidates."
> we have member ID cards, and each of them has a number.
> I guess we could give the oldest member of the party the
> place in case of a tie, i.e. the person with the lowest
> number on the ID card. Is this solution in line with what
> you recommend?

Yes.

You wrote (9 May 2010):

> You wrote On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:59 PM:
> "Yes, the Schulze STV method and the Schulze proportional
> ranking method can handle situations with incomplete individual
> rankings without sacrificing any of the good properties."
> This would be great. Just to avoid any potential misunderstandings:
> can Schulze-STV and Schulze proportional ranking handle ballots on
> the form "M1 Operator M2 Operator ... Operator Mn", where Operator
> is in {>, =} and M1,..., Mn are elements in the set of hopefuls?

Yes.

Markus Schulze