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| Mr. Furxheir, R.M.W. | February 28, 2005 - 12:00 | |||
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| Mr. Furxheir, R.M.W. Group: admins (1791 posts total) (last post: November 24, 2007 - 15:07) Citizen #20: Martí- Paìr Furxhéir | http://www.talossaonline.com/1.15971.1.html Now, let me make this clear. THIS IS NOT A BILL TO BE VOTED ON. This is just a BRAIN-STORMING of the ideas on how to run a preferential ballot election. I do not want people to announce they are contra or për this, I want comments on how to make it better. We are currently having a preferential ballot election, but we don't have a law. This is our second election ( the Convention vote was the first one ) and we have gathered a lot of ideas. I think it is time to TRY to write them down, for later review by a mixed electoral commission ( mixed meaning Senate and Deputies ) on writing the final electoral law. This would be a POSSIBLE article on Preferential Ballot Election. So I am looking for comments on how to make this clearer, how to improve the law, etc... ARTICLE N : Preferential Ballot Election 1. Preferential ballot elections are the method used to elect a single candidate by majority to an office in the Republic of Talossa. 2. A preferential ballot is a ballot in which the voters need to rank each candidate in order of preference, with their preferred candidate in first rank, followed by their second preferred candidate in second rank and so on. A ballot is only valid if all the candidates have been ranked. 3. Once the election is closed, the conductor of the election shall publish all the ballots, ensuring that there is no way to retrace which voter has cast which ballot. 4. If a single candidate receives a majority of the first rank of ballots, that candidate is declared winner of the election. 5. If no candidate receives a majority, a series of rounds of elimination shall be conducted, with each rounds consisting of three phases: A ) Determining the candidate with the lowest current vote total B ) Redistributing the votes for the candidate selected in phase A C ) Determining the new current vote totals for every candidate, declaring a winner if one now has a majority 6. The Current Vote Total is the total number of votes currently assigned to a candidate, and includes all of his first rank votes, as well as any ballots redistributed to him by the elimination of other candidates. 7. When determining the candidate with the lowest current vote total, the tie breaking procedure must be used to select only one candidate per round, with the candidate with the LOWEST tie breaking result selected for elimination. 8. When redistributing the votes of an eliminated candidate, the name of the candidate is simply striked from every ballot in the election, however, none of the other candidates change rank as a result. The candidate in the highest non-striked rank simply receives the ballot. As such, if the first rank of a ballot is striked, it's second rank is used to assign the vote, and so on. 9. If at any rounds of the procedure, several candidates are tied for elimination, even if they are only 2 remaining candidates each tied with 50% of the vote, the following steps must be used to determine who is eliminated. If at any of the steps, one of the tied candidates has a lower total, he is selected for elimination. A ) The number of first rank ballot cast for each candidate is calculated. B ) The number of second rank ballot assigned to each candidate is calculated. C ) One by one, the rank of each ballot assigned to each candidate is calculated, going down until there are no ranks. D ) If there is still a tie, the next non-striked rank of every ballot is used to determine the loser of the tie, as if all the tied candidate had been elimininated and redistributed. E ) If the above procedure is unable to determine a single loser in a tie between 3 candidates or more, the procedure is repeated between only the candidates that were still tied, going further down the ranks for their ballots. F ) If there is a still tie for elimination, but that not all candidates are tied, all the tied candidates are eliminated. G ) If there is still a tie between all the remaining candidates, the external method defined in the type of election shall be used. [For example, a vote by the Deputies, the flip of a coin, etc..] What does an elephant with Diarrhea need ? Lot's of space... |
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