Re: Discussion - Proposed Constitution - voting part 2

1998-10-09 Thread Darren Benham
On 09-Oct-98 Ian Jackson wrote: > A.6(5)(iii): > This elimination procedure is repeated, moving down ballot papers to > 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. preferences as required, until one option gets > more than half of the `first' preferences. > > It seems to me to be clear that the intent is that if a

Re: Discussion - Proposed Constitution - voting part 2

1998-10-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Darren Benham writes ("Discussion - Proposed Constitution - voting part 2"): > I've found another area that could cause problems in the vote counting area. > I've been running various sceanios and here's what I've found: > > In point 5 of A.6. describes the STV method. Basicly, if no one > optio