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

[Richard Lung]

 From the K.M. quote, I gather that the answer was "yes," single member 
systems. Perhaps Schulze STV was on the list. From Wikipedia it is said 
to be similar to CPO-STV which uses Condorcet pairing. This however does 
seem to be an elimination procedure of sorts.

  At any rate conventional STV, whether or not including Schulze, do not 
appear to be in the poll, which hardly suggests a unitary approach to 
election method. Besides still not affording a general election method.

Cardinal voting methods (the cumulative voting family) confound the vote 
(of individual choice) with the count (of community choice.

Regards,

Richard Lung.



On 12/04/2024 15:51, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> 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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