http://kalimac.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kevin_standlee 2007-01-24 09:42 pm (UTC)

I looked at this again, and your misinterpretations are so amazing I couldn't resist saying more.

You quote the Wiki on Droop quota to counter my statement that Droop quota threshold calculation has no place in IRV. But in fact the Wiki on Droop quota calculation says just what I said: that you don't calculate it in IRV, you just go straight to simple majority.

Same thing is true with surplus vote allocation. The concept of a relative percentage calculation is essential to STV. It has no place in IRV, and your own argument says so.

A counting system designed to produce a single winner is not the same thing as a counting system designed to produce multiple winners, even if the number of multiple winners varies. That is a standard concept which you are fruitlessly trying to deny.

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