Voting system for elections

Joshua D. Drake jd at commandprompt.com
Tue Aug 16 15:12:03 UTC 2016


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.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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