[thechat] protests?

Paul Cowan evolt at funkwit.com
Tue Mar 25 22:23:58 CST 2003


Martin wrote:
> There are plenty of more representative ways of electing someone (and 
> no, I don't include Westminster's method). STV being a good example 
> (although it works best when you have > 2 candidates).

The beauty of that being, of course, that if you HAVE STV, then 
you'll almost certainly HAVE more than 2 candidates most of the time, 
because there's considerably less chance that candidates 3..n will 
just be wasting their time...

Paul.



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