EMS Voting notes and disscussion

Quick Video introductions:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-zNY-X3vY
• http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=2451

Detailed Descriptions:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Single_Transferable_Votes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting
• http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/articles/rich.htm

Search terms:

Choice voting, Preferential voting or Preference voting
Cumulative voting (also accumulation voting, weighted voting or multi-voting)

Notes:

Perhaps STV and Cumulative voting can be combined. I think under some conditions more than one vote can come from a voter for a candidate already, but I'm not sure.

-- ClifCox - 2011-10-21