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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposal for changes to the newsgroup creation guidlines.
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Date: 19 Oct 89 15:12:38 GMT
References: <14718.2538b6f4@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <BBC.89Oct17025321@nysa.rice.edu>
Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
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In article <BBC.89Oct17025321@nysa.rice.edu> Benjamin Chase <bbc@rice.edu> writes:
|... the choices are reordered by the voter in order of her
|preference, most preferred first.  This scheme would be an excellent
|choice for the current quandary over alt.aquaria's new name, since it
|allows many names to be considered in a single vote, and allows the voters
|to rank them in that single vote.

|After collecting the preferential ballots, tally them according to
|their first choice.  Next, iteratively throw out the lowest
|vote-winner (that is, the "loser"), redistributing its votes to the
|other candidates, according to the next highest choices on the ballots
|of that loser.

|So, does anyone have opinions on _this_ scheme?

Peter's Single Transferable Vote scheme by any other name ...

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Geoff Allen
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