Re: Suggestion for coming elections

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 16 octobre 2007, à 08:44 -0500, George Kraft a écrit :
> 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

Actually, with the current system, members can vote for N candidates
where 0 <= N <= 7.

Dave, maybe it's just a matter of communicating more about the fact that
we don't have to vote for 7 people, but for up to 7 people?

Vincent

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