Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Official list of candidates

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 21:34 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote:

> I think nothing stops anyone from voting for all six of Novell
> employees (there's no rule against it, AFAIK).  They cannot all be
> elected, but I don't see how this system of voting is worse for them
> (not taking the "4-rule" into account) than any other system (which
> would be used along with the "4-rule").  If they're all "popular"
> candidates, they'll end up in a battle between themselves, using any
> of the systems.  If some of them are not "popular", they won't be
> elected no matter what :-)

Right, people can vote for any number of people with a shared
affiliation and someone might indeed want to vote for all six Novell
employees, but in this voting system that can result in scenarios where
I decrease the chances of the "more likely" four winning.

I am not arguing for or against changing to a Ranked Ballot system, just
trying to explain what Alan is saying.

	Robert Love