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: | Luis Villa (lu...@tieguy.org) | |
| Date: | Feb 17, 2008 5:32:57 am | |
| List: | org.gnome.foundation-list | |
On Feb 16, 2008 6:47 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> 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