in reply to RE: Voting Help in the US
in thread Voting Help in the US

I've always like the single-transferable vote system. You pick candidates in order preference and your vote goes to the first pick.

Then, all the votes are tallied and the lowest man is booted and all of his votes are passed on or dropped in the case of those who didn't list a second preference.

The tally and drop procedure continues till one candidate has more than 50% of the votes remaining. Bam, winner.

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RE: RE: RE: Voting Help in the US
by jeorgen (Pilgrim) on Oct 23, 2000 at 16:48 UTC
    extremely said:
    I've always like the single-transferable vote system
    The STV system can be used for trading votes among different factions. This may not be a problem in full-scale general election but I know anecdotically about a case where one large country's candidates wondered what hit them (they didn't get any people on the board, because the other countries traded votes).

    They know how to play the game now.

    A good electoral system must also be easy to grasp.

    /jeorgen

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