Re: [ga] List rules

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 12:14 PM 8/23/00 -0400, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:

The proper way to do this is have the list moderator and two others 
(usually appointed by the list owner). The goal is to have both protection 
for the list moderator and an independent review in all complaint decisions.

Jon, you make a very good point. It is definitely *NOT* the right way to go 
to run an election campaign to grant authority to 3 list Nazi's.

>At 12:39 AM 8/22/00 -0700, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >The recent messages from two of our members reminded me that we need to get
> >a formal vote according to the approved voting rules on the list rules.
> >
> >I would like the GA to consider adopting the current rules, with the
> >following changes:
> >
> >- There are 3 list monitors, not one. Any two of them can take action.
> >- The list monitors are elected by the GA electorate using Instant Runoff
> >Voting.
> >[snip]
>
>         Not to make trouble, but . . .
>
>         I'm a big fan of IRV for elections of a *single* candidate.  Its 
> utility
>is a lot less clear when one is electing multiple candidates in a single
>vote, as the excellent discussion in
><http://www.aec.gov.au/pubs/electoral_systems.htm#majoritorian> makes
>plain.  In a context like this, any number of simpler systems, including
>approval voting, would work adequately.  (Approval voting is what we do
>when the ga nominates candidates for ga chair or ICANN director -- every ga
>member gets to endorse as many candidates as he likes.  Instead of passing
>the resulting list to the NC, though, we would just take the three people
>with the most endorsements.)
>
>         I'm leaving to one side the question of whether we want to have list
>monitors at all.  Nor is it clear to me that more than three people will
>actually want to *run*, in a contested election, for that job -- my
>suspicion is that in the typical case, the chair will talk three reluctant
>people into it, and those three will run uncontested in a pro forma election.
>
>Jon
>
>Jonathan Weinberg
>weinberg@msen.com
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Best Regards,

Simon

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