Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > So, scrapping that - how does the election of multiple candidates in > the SPI board election work? (weasel?)
Badly. I think it's similar to election-by-blacklist. It seems particularly vulnerable to prejudice and smears, which should kill off any debian social committee if those influence its election. If we used a similar system, social committee couldn't really predict consensus with most minorities, because only majority-acceptable representatives of minorities (poodles?) would get elected. Proportionality is very important for a social-committee. If it has deep disagreements on certain topics (like Anglo-Victorian values, for example), then it will be correctly reflecting the wider social situation. The important thing will be to give it deadlock-busting working methods. In more detail on the SPI voting system: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/482 http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/spi#elections Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
