> From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s@xxxxxxx>
> I am somewhat surprised that no-one has actually answered the question
> why DO we use a noncom rather than open elections?
Acually, several people have. Fred Baker recently (13 Sep 2006 04:26:30) made
a post which made a very good analysis of this point, and one of mine
discussed it as well, early in the thread (5 Sep 2006 11:34:43).
There are a variety of reasons, above the one you cited (packing); my personal
favourite is one several people mentioned (less politics), but I think perhaps
the most useful one in practise is another one which I mentioned earlier:
>> Rather than having everyone spend ten minutes on deciding who to
>> select, a subset (which the random draw hopefully makes reasonably
>> representative of the group as a whole) does a more in-depth and
>> thought-through selection.
Noel
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