<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Chris Benham wrote:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">CB: I haven't yet made up my mind what the best ranked-ballot PR method <BR>
is yet, but if the ballots are symetrically completed,<BR>
and then those ballots that ranked A first are all fractioanlly <BR>
devalued by an amount that sums to a Droop quota (180/3 = 60),<BR>
then the winners are A and C.<BR>
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Symmetric completion ( that if you symmetrically completed the ballots you would elect the Meek winning set not the Newland-Britton winning) came up as a strong argument in favour of Meek in the discussion I was having.<BR>
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Thanks for the example from Woodall showing how symmetric completion can potentially give a different result to reducing the quota.<BR>
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David Gamble<BR>
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