Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

[Telsa Gwynne <telsa telsa org uk>]

Ar Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:10:23PM -0700, ysgrifennodd Elijah Newren:
> At the risk of sounding like a bad person...
[...]
> Trying to counteract this factor, I've often voted for such people
> that I thought would be great and would be unknown in the wider
> community, and omitted voting for people I liked that I knew would
> make it on the board anyway (often making sure to select fewer people
> than the maximum I was allowed).  I was hoping it would even out the
> number of votes a little bit, and make those who didn't get elected
> feel more encouraged to try again.

What can be bad about this? I do this too. 

Telsa