[EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upcoming enactment-elections

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Fri Apr 12 07:51:39 PDT 2024


On 2024-04-12 15:58, Richard Lung wrote:
> 
> This poll, I gather from the unfamiliar sounding names, is of 
> single-member systems. But there need not be two classes of election 
> systems, single-member and multi-member. There are not two truths of 
> electoral system. There is (one truth) general electoral system.

It is indeed possible to have a multi-winner method that reduces to a 
particular single-winner method when the number of seats is set to one.

Such a method need not even use elimination. Schulze STV doesn't use 
elimination, nor do optimization-based cardinal methods like Phragmen.

-km


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