[Fsfe-uk] STV

[John Seago]

Alasdair G Kergon wrote:

> STV?  Personally I'm not keen on it when voting for *multiple* people:
> if I'm voting for two people I want a say about *both* of them: I
> don't want to find that only my first preference was taken into
> account and my second preference was effectively ignored (because my  
> first preference wasn't eliminated until near the end.)
> I'm OK with STV when just appointing one person.
> But it can be painful to administer and sometimes produces strange
> results.

It has been my experience of Trade Union Elections that the members can 
quite happily handle STV, and indeed manipulate the system in a very 
sophisticated manner. 

John Seago