RE: [wg-review] The Number 2 Problem (solution)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

If it were so simple, a simple majority would suffice. As it is, even simple
elections (non-authenticated) give me cause to pause. A lot of us have been
trying to get it down to KISS, but it isn't easy. There are real concerns
with that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:19 PM
> To: Chris McElroy
> Cc: Greg Burton; wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-review] The Number 2 Problem (solution)
> 
> 
> Chris McElroy wrote:
> > 
> > Then in that case we will have to have a definition for each.
> > 
> > Strong Consensus = ?%
> > Consensus = ?%
> > Near Consensus = ?%
> > 
> > and whatever other definitions you wish to come up with 
> making the process
> > more difficult for the average person to understand. If 
> that is anyone's
> > goal here, to make things more complicated, then I retract 
> any agreement
> > about consensus at all and go back to where I started in 
> line with Karl's
> > thinking. One person, one vote.
> > 
> Forgive my naivety, but, what is wrong with a simple majority?
> 
> Are elections not won, using simple majority (when voting for a
> representative, who gets the most votes, wins), and, are referenda and
> plebiscites, not decided, by using simple majorities?
> 
> How many seats would be left vacant at elections, and, how many
> questions in referenda and plebiscites, would be defeated, if a 2/3
> majority was required?
> 
> To me, a simple majority, is the simplest, and, most expedient, way of
> deciding an issue.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bret Busby
> 
> Armadale, West Australia
> 
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