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

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 22:30:21 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:

>DPF wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

>Preferential voting, also tends to involve shady dealings between
>candidates, to form voting "tickets", as a result of shady deals between
>candidates. 

This is more a feature of Australian system which allows people to let
their party reallocate their preferences for them and hence preference
swapping is rife.  The pure system where you vote as individuals is
less susceptible to this.

>If democracy is wanted, or, required, as it should be, then, the simple,
>and, only, genuine option, is simple, first past the post voting. Who
>gets the most votes, in a single round of voting, wins. All else is a
>travesty.

That is one opinion.  I believe it also leads to candidates getting
elected who do not have the support of the majority of the people they
represent.

>But, then, as it appears that universal suffrage does not exist on this
>list, and, as I am not one of the elite, it appears that my opinion does
>not count, anyway, so, I suppose, in the absence of democracy, it does
>not really matter.

What are you talking about Bret?  Every member of this list does
indeed have a vote so what elite are you referring to?

DPF
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