Voting matters — To advance the understanding of preferential voting systems

Issue 30, April 2013

(Complete issue in PDF, 134KB.)

Editorial

There are five items in this issue:

• The first paper, by I.D. Hill, makes the case for using Meek's computer-oriented version of STV for Scotland's STV elections.
• In the second paper, Lee Naish discusses a system of partial disclosure of STV results that can be used to preclude the enforcement of certain coercive voting practices.
• In the third paper, James Green-Armytage reviews software that can be used to count elections by a variety of voting rules, including a number of versions of STV.
• The fourth paper is a response by Thomas Colignatus to the review by Markus Schulze of Colignatus’s book, Voting Theory for Democracy in the previous issue of Voting matters.
• The fifth and final item is Markus Schulze's reply to Thomas Colignatus.

Papers with citations

1. I.D. Hill: The Case for Meek for STV in Scotland. (p1-8, PDF 81KB)
2. Lee Naish: Partial Disclosure of Votes in STV Elections. (p9-13, PDF 108KB)
3. James Green-Armytage: Software Review: OpenSTV and OpaVote. (p14-17, PDF 92KB)
4. Thomas Colignatus: A Short Response to a ‘Review’, with a Comment on Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (p18-20, PDF 84KB)
5. Markus Schulze: Short Reply to "A Short Response to a 'Review', with a Comment on Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" by Thomas Colignatus (p21, PDF 7KB)