There was an interesting article in New Scientist about voting theory: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19826511.600-why-first pastthepost-voting-is-flawed.html
Bit late now, but interesting nevertheless. Cheers, Simon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Frantisek Dufka > Sent: 03 September 2008 10:23 > To: List for community development > Subject: Re: Final candidate list for Community Council elections > > Dave Neary wrote: > > A reminder: the election is being run as a one-man-one-vote > first 5 past > > the post election, you will only be able to vote for one > (1) candidate, > > so choose wisely! > > > > I'd like to have definition for 'wisely' here :-) > > If I want more specific candidates in the concil I basically need to > vote for the one which I guess will get less votes. Once > everybody does > this the situation will reverse. OTOH if I choose the first one on my > list and my guess is correct the second one might not get > enough votes. > > So how one can choose wisely with such system? > > What is bad with having 5 votes (for each member)? I'm really asking > because I don't know voting theory. Without much thinking I > suppose you > will just get 5 more votes, it won't change anything else, and it will > solve the issue mentioned above. > > So basically why to use one-man-one-vote system when council has 5 > members (not 1)? > > > Frantisek > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community > _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
