Re: [wg-review] co-chair election system

["Chris McElroy" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

Not from my understanding. I assumed he meant that we poll. The bottom
candidate is eliminated. We re-poll, etc until someone has 51% or better.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

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From: "DPF" <david@farrar.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [wg-review] co-chair election system


> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 07:17:20 +1300, J J Teernstra wrote:
>
> >At 04:07 9/01/01 GMT,David wrote:
> >
> >>I'm happy to document the counting procedure if the WG wants to use this
as a
> >>method of election.  However is Joop's polling booth able to handle
people
> >>ranking rather than just voting for a candidate?
> >>
> >Yes, it could be done.  But it is a lot  more work (both for the voters
and
> >for the Administrator) than simply giving every voter the option of
multiple
> >ticks for multiple candidates, and the result is the same.(just like the
> >nomination result)
>
> Actually the result is far from the same.  One can still end up with
> someone elected on 25% of the vote.
>
> Multiple ticking also can be used tactically more easily than
> preferential voting.
>
> >The  candidates still end up being ranked in order of preference.
>
> Preferential voting is not about having a final ranking of candidates.
> It is about ensuring that the winning candidate is the preferred
> choice of a majority of voters.
>
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