RE: [council] Timing for vote, election planning

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>]

From political science gallery....

With voting methods, one must strictly follow specified rules, not
what might appear to be reasonable approximations. Under the
rules, one vote is fundamentally different from zero votes.

In convention-style voting, it is quite possible for the person who gets 2 
votes in round one to get 10 votes later, if constituencies are engaged 
in strategic behavior with their votes.

--MM

>>> "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com> 08/30/01 03:37PM >>>

Are we not able to eliminate the two lowest votes in the first round? 

As example: 

If there is one person with no votes, and one with 2, then we would
eliminate two people.

If there is one person with 1 vote and one with 2, then we would eliminate
two people.

It makes no sense to drag this on for numerous sets of voting.   

Marilyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Sheppard [mailto:philip.sheppard@aim.be] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:55 AM
To: Elisabeth Porteneuve; council@dnso.org 
Subject: Re: [council] Timing for vote, election planning


Elisabeth,
thanks for the election process update. Just to clarify. We propose to
eliminate in each round BOTH the lowest vote AND in addition anyone with
zero votes?

So,
We eliminate one if there is NO ONE with a zero vote.
We eliminate two if there is ONE person with a zero vote.

Is this the system you propose?
Philip