<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 3, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Markus Schulze <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markus.schulze@alumni.tu-berlin.de">markus.schulze@alumni.tu-berlin.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto; ">Dear Raph Frank,<br><br>you wrote (3 May 2010):<br> <div class="im"><br>> For the rest of the council, I think electing<br></div>> them using Schulze-STV with the restriction<br> <div class="im">> that only results where the President and VP<br>> are members are allowed would give better<br>> proportionality.<br><br></div>If I understand Peter Zbornik correctly, then he<br>wants a ranking of the members of the council, so<br> that it is clear who the 2nd vice president, the<br>3rd vice president, the 4th vice president, etc.,<br>is.</blockquote> <div>Markus Schulze understands me correctly.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I understood that the VPs should be ranked but that there is no such requirement for the rest of the council. Or are all members of the council considered to be numbered VPs?</div><div><br></div><div>The use of some proportional ranking method indeed distorts proportionality a bit. But I proposed to study also this "one method only" approach (as an alternative to best possible optimization of the proportionality of the council) since the resulting method would be simple and the distortion that it causes could be smaller than its benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>Juho</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>