On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 01:07 +0200, Dimitris Glezos wrote: > Hey guys, > > this might interest you. Indeed it does. Forwarding also to f-a-b for its high interest value. Paul [...keep reading...] > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: CLAY S <clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:30 AM > Subject: Range Voting for steering commitee > To: dimitris@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Hello, > > My name is Clay Shentrup, and I work with the Center for Range Voting. > (http://rangevoting.org/) > > I just read about a possible use of Range Voting for steering > committee elections. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/SteeringCommittee/Elections > > I think this is great news for voting reform community. However I see > that the election is for "seats", not just a single seat, and I would > therefore suggest Reweighted Range Voting, because it inherently gives > ideologically-proportional representation, which would seem to lead to > better more representative leadership. That is, rather than getting 7 > widely liked "centrists", you'd get 7 people who whose appeal is more > representative of segments of the community doing the voting. This > inherently leads to more debate and discussion, and in theory at > least, better ultimate decisions. > > In addition, our organization would love the opportunity to evaluate > anonymized ballot data, to look for voting trends that can tell us > more about the prevalence of e.g. strategic voting using this voting > method. > > Best regards, > Clay > > -- > clay shentrup > san francisco, ca > phone: 206.801.0484 >
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