Re: Voting system for elections

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ian Jackson <ijackson(at)chiark(dot)greenend(dot)org(dot)uk>, "Barak A(dot) Pearlmutter" <bap(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Voting system for elections
Date: 2016-08-16 15:12:03
Message-ID: 4e9f6cb2-cc7b-a1bf-8363-8c5ba629180b@commandprompt.com
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On 08/16/2016 07:04 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Barak A. Pearlmutter writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"):
>> On 25 July 2016 at 19:10, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> SPI should adopt a system widely used elsewhere.

Correct.

>
> STV is the only widely adopted proportional voting system suitable for
> SPI (the others are supplementary/additional member systems, and party
> list systems).

I don't follow voting systems in anyway until this last election and
funny enough, I ran into open source[1] project that is executing a vote
right now, using STV.

Sincerely,

JD

1. PHP-FIG

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