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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The quota and the quotient</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Binomial STV combines a rational election count with
a rational exclusion count. The election count is conducted, in
the normal way, in order of the voters preferences. The
exclusion count is conducted in exactly the same way
(symmetrically), but with the preferences in reverse order.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The election count elects candidates. The exclusion
count excludes candidates. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">But some candidate may be both elected and excluded.
("Schrodingers candidate" as Forest Simmons might say, tho this
term is poetic license, here. Binomial STV does, however, like
quantum physics, deal in probabilities.) Their election keep
value can be compared with their exclusion keep value. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The keep value is the quota divided by a candidates
vote, including preference transfers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The election keep value is divided by the exclusion
keep value. If this over-all keep value, or quotient, is still
unity or less than unity, the candidate is relatively elected,
by the quotient. That is as well as positively elected by the
quota. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">If two such candidates are so placed, for one
remaining seat, the candidate with the lower quotient is elected
or wins.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The quota is a more powerful measurement than the
quotient, because the ratio scale is more powerful than the
interval scale. Occasionally the quotient may arbitrate, when
election and exclusion quotas conflict.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Does this seem consistent, or not inconsistent, to
you?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Richard Lung.<br>
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