[EM] General PR question (from Andy Jennings in 2011)

Richard Fobes ElectionMethods at VoteFair.org
Tue Sep 30 11:30:13 PDT 2014


On 9/30/2014 10:22 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Toby Pereira<tdp201b at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
> ...
>> In that case take the following example:
>>
>> 4 to elect, proportional representation, approval voting
>>
>> 10 voters: A
>> 10 voters: B
>> 10 voters: C
>> 9 voters: D
>> 1 voter: D, E
>>
>> I declare the winning set of candidates to be ABCE.
>>
>
> I declare it to be ABCD, because 10 voters support D, only 1 supports
> E so that a larger number of voters would achieve your calculated
> measure of representation.

I agree with Kathy.  ABCD would be much, much fairer.



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