Re: [ga] [resend] STV voting method

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 23 September 1999, Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org> wrote:


>Michael Froomkin wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
>
>> > Last not the least, the understanding of voting procedure
>> > by everybody is essential -- and this is not a case for STV.
>> 
>> If the NC cannot understand the voting system, they are in the wrong > job.
>
>It is not the place for the so-called secretary of the DNSO to be
>deciding, or even commenting on, the voting procedure to be used for
>electing DNSO board members. Furthermore, Ms. Porteneuve has
>apparently been told by Javier Sola or Ken Stubbs, or perhaps David
>Maher, or another of the CORE/ISOC people she takes her orders from,
>to denigrate STV precisely because it is fair, and they don't want
>fairly-elected DNSO board members. They want their own DNSO board
>members. Elizabeth Porteneuve is simply carrying out their will.  


That's easily solved.  We just nominate all of the NC members, thus
eliminating them from interfering in the elections.

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