Re: Suggestion for coming elections

[George Kraft <gkraft gnome org>]

Here is the balloting scheme used by the former Free Standards Group.
It was simple and I'm not aware of any resulting controversy.

> In approval voting, each voter selects as few or as many 
> candidates for whom they wish to vote, or 'approve'.

> Mathematically, for votes to have meaning, each ballot 
> should select between 1 and (n-1) candidates to approve, 
> where n is the total number of candidates. Voting for 
> fewer candidates indicates a stronger preference for 
> those you selected, with little disapproval of those 
> not selected. Voting for more candidates indicates a 
> lesser preference for each of those approved, while 
> allowing you to vote for more candidates. Ballots with 
> none or all of the candidates selected may have symbolic 
> meaning, but will not affect the outcome of the election.

http://www.linux-foundation.org/docs/FSG_Election_Policy.pdf

-- 
George (gk4)