If we just put information *The voting method is single transferable vote (STV) so in the end only one of your candidates gets your vote (in the order of your preference)*.
For 99% of people it won't mean anything. This info, in my opinion, belongs to wiki as technicality, not in general voting instructions. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen / Z poważaniem, Arek On 18 March 2010 13:37, Frantisek Dufka <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Neary wrote: > >> Could people give me some feedback on the following instructions email, >> please? >> >> >> http://vcs.maemo.org/svn/maemo2midgard/maemo-elections/scripts/instructions.txt >> > > I am missing the voting method mentioned somewhere. There is the "Then > select your preferred candidates in order of preference." sentence but no > explanation how the preference actually affects the result. I would add > something like > > The voting method is single transferable vote (STV) so in the end only one > of your candidates gets your vote (in the order of your preference). > > Anyone else thinks it is important enough to be included or is it too > complex and would confuse the matter? I am trying to prevent possible > confusion. Without knowing the method people might think that by making the > list of candidates the vote would somehow be proportionally counted for > more/all candidates on the list or whatever. > > Frantisek > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community >
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