Re: Anonymous Voting Referendum

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Well, actually you could, by weighting votes.  But that's a whole can of
worms :-)

-Rob

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:13 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Llu, 2004-09-13 at 15:50, James Henstridge wrote:
> > > Usually proportional representation is used to describe a system where 
> > > the number of seats each party gets is proportional to the number of 
> > > people who voted for them (so if 10% of voters vote for party X, then 
> > > party X gets 10% of the seats).
> > > 
> > > Since each candidate in the foundation election is an independent and 
> > > can win at most one seat, I don't really think proportional 
> > > representation applies here.
> > 
> > If anything the EU suggests that the basic party based form is the worst
> > possible case for the foundation. Party lists mean that whoever is top
> > of the list is sure of a cushy job, whoever is bottom isn't going to.
> > The result of this is that nobody dares stand against their party even
> > when they know the party is wrong, because they will be moved down the
> > list next election and punished for it.
> > 
> > The foundation people stand and are elected for their views not their
> > employer so we don't want such lists IMHO.
> 
>   Historically the foundation elections were supposed to be slate based
> but this got turned down, one thing is sure I don't want to go back and
> I don't understand how proportional representation can apply when votes
> are going to individuals (no, we can't have 2/3rd of Nat and 1/3rd of
> Miguel on the board :-)
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-September/msg00032.html
> 
> Daniel
>