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I thought Cambridge voting was confusing [1], but Wales apparently has a new wrinkle on things: two ballots, one for the candidate (magenta), one for the party (white). I don't quite understand why... (BBC story)
A Russian mathematician may have proved the Poincare Conjecture, though of course, there will be years of combing through the proof Dr Grigori Perelman has made (description of the Conjecture).
[1] Well, it is: you rank people, so you give someone your number 1 vote, someone else number 2, etc, if you want to, and once a candidate has enough votes to make it onto the city council, all the other people who gave that candidate their number 1 vote have their number 2 vote instead. And so on. Or at least, that's what I understand. This explains why the campaign signs around Cambridge all suggest giving Candidate X "your #1 vote." This system is apparently the darling of political theorists, and damned confusing for everyone else, including the Cambridge electorate. It also explains why Cambridge takes so long reporting election results.
I thought Cambridge voting was confusing [1], but Wales apparently has a new wrinkle on things: two ballots, one for the candidate (magenta), one for the party (white). I don't quite understand why... (BBC story)
A Russian mathematician may have proved the Poincare Conjecture, though of course, there will be years of combing through the proof Dr Grigori Perelman has made (description of the Conjecture).
[1] Well, it is: you rank people, so you give someone your number 1 vote, someone else number 2, etc, if you want to, and once a candidate has enough votes to make it onto the city council, all the other people who gave that candidate their number 1 vote have their number 2 vote instead. And so on. Or at least, that's what I understand. This explains why the campaign signs around Cambridge all suggest giving Candidate X "your #1 vote." This system is apparently the darling of political theorists, and damned confusing for everyone else, including the Cambridge electorate. It also explains why Cambridge takes so long reporting election results.
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Cambridge voting
Date: 2003-05-08 11:02 am (UTC)Only in Cambridge, really...
Re: Cambridge voting
Date: 2003-05-08 11:47 am (UTC)Just in case you want more information, the city has a site with everything you'd ever want to know about voting in Cambridge. And the people who made the tallying software include an explanation of the system as well.