On 06/25/2009 12:30 PM, john palmieri wrote: > If it is a disagreement on how votes should be counted then the vote is > flawed and I propose we have a runoff between the candidates who were on > one list but not the other.
I'm not terribly familiar with STV and its variations, but it seems to me that if we assume people's votes in the runoff will be generally consistent with their votes in the original election, then the result of the runoff would be determined as much by the choice of STV variant used in the runoff than by the actual votes (which could more or less be predicted ahead of time), and so this isn't really much different from just letting the election committee retroactively declare which variant they meant to use in the original election. -- Dan _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list