2013/1/27 Gervase Lam <[email protected]> > I was looking through the Approval Voting article and noticed that it > mentioned that in 2009 the Dartmouth Board of Trustees had Approval > successfully repealed. > > It quotes an article in the web saying: "When the alumni electorate > fails to take advantage of the approval voting process, the three > required Alumni Council candidates tend to split the majority vote, > giving petition candidates an advantage." > > There is a link to the article. > > <http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/03/opinion/verbum/> > > Can anybody give any further background on this? The details in the > article look a bit sparse. >
I'm not an insider on this. But from what I saw, basically the repeal was because the insiders didn't like the results. I don't think they had a strong argument that the results were undemocratic, they just wanted to go back to a system that they knew better how to manipulate. (This is not based on extensive research, just reading about 3-4 articles on this and reading between the lines. So I could be wrong. Also it's been a few years since I really looked at this.) Jameson > > I think that the reason for the Approval failure was due to the "three > required Alumni Council candidates". But I don't really know. > > Can somebody comment in further detail on why Approval was unsuccessful > in this case? > > Thanks, > Gervase. > > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info >
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