Le mardi 16 octobre 2007, à 08:44 -0500, George Kraft a écrit : > Here is the balloting scheme used by the former Free Standards Group. > It was simple and I'm not aware of any resulting controversy. > > > In approval voting, each voter selects as few or as many > > candidates for whom they wish to vote, or 'approve'. > > > Mathematically, for votes to have meaning, each ballot > > should select between 1 and (n-1) candidates to approve, > > where n is the total number of candidates. Voting for > > fewer candidates indicates a stronger preference for > > those you selected, with little disapproval of those > > not selected. Voting for more candidates indicates a > > lesser preference for each of those approved, while > > allowing you to vote for more candidates. Ballots with > > none or all of the candidates selected may have symbolic > > meaning, but will not affect the outcome of the election. > > http://www.linux-foundation.org/docs/FSG_Election_Policy.pdf
Actually, with the current system, members can vote for N candidates where 0 <= N <= 7. Dave, maybe it's just a matter of communicating more about the fact that we don't have to vote for 7 people, but for up to 7 people? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list