16 messages in org.gnome.foundation-listRe: time to (re)consider preferential...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Luis Villa | Feb 16, 2008 7:53 am | |
| Dave Neary | Feb 16, 2008 8:19 am | |
| Jonathon Jongsma | Feb 16, 2008 8:35 am | |
| Quim Gil | Feb 16, 2008 11:20 am | |
| Shaun McCance | Feb 16, 2008 3:47 pm | |
| Luis Villa | Feb 17, 2008 5:32 am | |
| Quim Gil | Feb 17, 2008 11:36 am | |
| James Henstridge | Feb 23, 2008 5:32 pm | |
| Elijah Newren | Feb 23, 2008 8:10 pm | |
| Telsa Gwynne | Feb 24, 2008 12:41 am | |
| Shaun McCance | Feb 24, 2008 9:44 am | |
| James Henstridge | Feb 24, 2008 7:14 pm | |
| James Henstridge | Feb 25, 2008 5:08 am | |
| Behdad Esfahbod | Feb 25, 2008 10:47 am | |
| Vincent Untz | Feb 27, 2008 3:44 am | |
| Bruno Boaventura | Feb 27, 2008 2:23 pm |
| Subject: | Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting? | |
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| From: | James Henstridge (jam...@jamesh.id.au) | |
| Date: | Feb 25, 2008 5:08:27 am | |
| List: | org.gnome.foundation-list | |
On 24/02/2008, Telsa Gwynne <tel...@telsa.org.uk> wrote:
Ar Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:10:23PM -0700, ysgrifennodd Elijah Newren:
At the risk of sounding like a bad person...
[...]
Trying to counteract this factor, I've often voted for such people that I thought would be great and would be unknown in the wider community, and omitted voting for people I liked that I knew would make it on the board anyway (often making sure to select fewer people than the maximum I was allowed). I was hoping it would even out the number of votes a little bit, and make those who didn't get elected feel more encouraged to try again.
What can be bad about this? I do this too.
There is nothing bad about the people doing this: the voting system effectively encourages it.
I would instead say that it is a problem with the voting system: that people end up casting a ballot that doesn't accurately reflect who they want on the board.
James.