On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 17:15, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am for this if we can change how we elect people (either make voting >> mandatory, change range-voting to a more parliamentary system, and/or >> make voting per seat versus pool). As I have said before, while I >> would have gotten this slot if there had been one more seat >> available.. the difference in votes for me versus the next candidate >> (and versus the other 2 contenders) was significant. > > It's difficult to see how we actually do this while having multiple > seats up for election at the same time. We don't have any concept of > districting by which to separate seats out as distinct opportunities. > It is more of my understanding of Range Voting as a method to select seats and isn't meant to be used for a pool of seats. With a pool we could go with something much more simpler and be as valid (vote +1/0/-1 for a candidate and those with the most votes above 0 get in :)). The seats is mainly for making keeping change as simple as possible in the election system. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
