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BC Voters, BC Single Transferable Vote Yay or Nay | by MikeCDN | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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It sounds horribly complicated. Will vote | by Peace_man | 2005-05-16 10:12:34 |
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My Students' Union | by pverdon | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
| ARRRRGH! NOT COMPLEX! |
by williamashbless |
2005-05-16 10:57:38 |
Sigh. Another failure of STV advocates to communicate. At all.
It's not a hard system. It doesn't require a full course. (Unless you're into political courses and exploring it historically and predictively, but since when is that new to STV?)
For the voter, it requires knowing that you rank the candidates in order of your preference up to however many people you care to vote for. If you want to vote for 1, vote for 1. If you want to vote for 3 vote for 3, in order of preference.
That's it.
Oh? You want to know how the votes are counted?
Well, you're probably one of the few, but it only takes a few minutes to explain the basic nuts and bolts. This is a handwavy attempt at my understanding.
1) There's a certain number of seats to be filled.
2) There's a certain number X which is the votes needed to guarantee getting a seat.
3) There's a total number of votes. X is related to the number of votes divided by the number of seats (actually its a little higher in BC's variation, but that's quibbling).
4) If the top person has too many votes (above X), slice up the votes so some part of each vote goes to that vote's next choice. This is so that every vote counts for _something_. Repeat #4 until nobody has too many.
5) If the bottom person has too few votes, drop 'em. Move all of each vote to that vote's next choice. This is so that every vote counts for _something_. Repeat back from #4, because this may mean someone's gotten too high again.
6) Repeat 4 and 5 until there are exactly as many people as seats.
This isn't too complex is it?
well, even if you don't want to work through the math by hand, nobody else will either. That's what calculators and computers are for. But it can be done by hand just fine enough.
There may be other smaller special case details, but I haven't run into them yet, and I can't imagine they'd be common. That's it. And all YOU have to do as a voter is rank your choices.
It's reasonably mathematically fair, and your vote gets counted as long as you have a 'next best choice' to move to when all or some fraction of your vote gets moved.
heh. Sorry if I ranted.
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