Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

john palmieri wrote:
> Is it really fair if people can't agree on how it works?  Seems to go 
> against the GNOME principle of simplicity by adding more choices to fix 
> some of the issues of voting.  I'm all for making things more fair but 
> I'm not sure the complexity actually fixes things or hides the issues 
> under a layer of complexity.  In any case the final decision should be 
> well documented on how it was reached.  If at all possible, done by hand 
> showing the work at each step.

The way forward seems clear to me - the membership committee decides 
what counting method will be used, announces it, and we count the 
election according to that means. There doesn't need to be a crisis here.

I have contacted the OpenSTV developers about the issues with transfers 
which I noticed in the distribution of Vincent's surplus. If there are 
bugs that need fixing on OpenSTV, we should make sure that gets done 
too. Counting/checking the election by hand is not impossible with only 
221 votes - in fact it's quite easy with the random transfer surplus 
distribution method.

Cheers,
Dave.


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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org