Hi all, Not sure who all from here participated, but we had a very lively discussion on the Unity08 forums:
http://www.unity08.com/node/970 Virtually everyone came out in favor of either Preferential or Approval (though mostly IRV supporters :-P). The even better news is that I was able to raise this issue during Unity08's live chat: http://unitywatch.blogspot.com/2007/04/question-for-live-chat-on- unity08-rules.html It turned one of the panelists was a big fan of Approval (but not IRV :-). We rapidly got a bit too technical for the chat, so he asked me to follow up offline. He likes the idea, but fears that non- standard voting would be too hard to sell as part of Unity08. My day job is Marketing, though, so hopefully I can persuade him otherwise... Thanks again, and I'll let you know if there's anything else we (collectively) can do. Best, -- Ernie P. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
