Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

[Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the
> Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.]
> 
> Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential
> voting to select the board. At the time I opposed it, for reasons I
> don't fully recall but which in retrospect probably boiled down to
> 'I'm unfamiliar with it.' I believe that at the time we'd also have
> had to write the software, which would not have been fun. But I've
> come around to believing that this is a better way to run elections.
> 
> It appears that by the time of our next election, we'll have a
> third-party, free software solution available for the problem, used
> recently and successfully by FreeCulture.org.
> http://blog.selectricity.org/?p=4
> 
> I'm still trying to puzzle through the bylaws (which are a bit of a
> mess wrt voting) as to what it would take to actually enact this
> change (bottom line is probably that the board can just say 'it should
> be this way'), but in the meantime I thought it might be good to have
> a bit of discussion here around whether or not this is a good idea.

For what it's worth, I would heartily support moving to a preferential
voting system.

-- 
Jonner