On Feb 16, 2008 6:47 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the board elections, we are electing seven people, > and we each get to cast up to seven votes. I don't > think we've ever seen the list of candidates unfairly > cut due to non-preferential voting.
Well, of course we haven't seen that list, since it can't exist without having asked people to rank the candidates :) > And I'm sure I've > never made a strategic vote for one person instead of > another I like more, simply to block another person. > > Any preferential voting systems is going to make the > voting process more difficult. If I had had to order > my votes in previous elections, I'm sure it would have > been mostly arbitrary. If it's not solving any real > problems, why bother? I don't think there is a huge problem here that needs to be solved, but my instinct is that it would have made at least a small difference in past elections. In particular, the creative commons election exposed a situation where one candidate got a lot of first and *last* place votes, and as a result did not make the board, and I have a sense that something similar might have happened with us in past elections had we practiced preferential voting. Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
