<div>Hi everyone thanks for the useful and interesting responses. </div><div><br></div><div>Juho in particular raises an interesting point - yes the grants can be different amounts and you're right we could factor magnitude of the grant into the initial calculation - historically the trustees have all known each other and have used consensus on everything - however last year they couldn't reach consensus so agreed some form of majority voting could be implemented for when consensus can't be achieved, they know I am an organisation and decision making "geek" so asked me to find solutions...</div><div><br></div><div>I've got some reading to do!</div><div><br></div><div>Mat </div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 at 01:17, Armando <<a href="mailto:pitocco.ma@anche.no">pitocco.ma@anche.no</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>El 2 jun 2017, a las 16:41, steve bosworth <<a href="mailto:stevebosworth@hotmail.com" target="_blank">stevebosworth@hotmail.com</a>> escribió:</div><br class="m_-7499698405353788808Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">In response to your kind thanks below,  I would still like to point out that in contrast to </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span class="m_-7499698405353788808Apple-converted-space"> </span>Associational Proportional Representation (APR), the<span class="m_-7499698405353788808Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">"</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">proportional multi-winner Condorcet [method] in very large magnitude constituencies" which you<span><span class="m_-7499698405353788808Apple-converted-space"> </span>currently seem to prefer would still "waste" some citizen's votes both quantitatively and qualitatively. <span class="m_-7499698405353788808Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I’ve found your explication of APR</div><div><a href="http://election-methods.electorama.narkive.com/61PGaAbe/em-no-wasted-votes" target="_blank">http://election-methods.electorama.narkive.com/61PGaAbe/em-no-wasted-votes</a></div><div>Maybe I didn’t understand, however the main feature is that MPs’ votes have different weight. It implies a different view of assembly. In Italy you should change Constitution. </div><div>Actually I prefer that all MPs have the same dignity, and would like to find a system where assemblies represent globally all electors.</div></div>----<br>
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</blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my iPhone apologies for spelling and brevity</div>