On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:39 +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:
>> FPP doesn't really work for selecting N candidates out of M. The software
>> is very simple to use, and is available at http://stv.sourceforge.net/.
>>
> I'll look at that but can you elude as to why it doesn't work? With
> FPP you pick the N top ranked candidates and they become your
> committee members.
I can't seem to come up with a concise argument in my head, although I
*know* the reasoning. The wikipedia artcle on it links to several good
articles though, discussing the relative benefits (and problems) with STV.
<cynical attitude>
Whichever voting system was deployed has mostly been a WOFTAM because of the lack of candidates.
If we had more candidates then we would know what works the best for us.
Hey, I've got an idea, why don't we get heaps of candidates this year and see what works the best, after that, we can document it in the wiki.
</cynical attitude>