[EURO-Discuss] [EURO-ALS] Voting Porcedure
Vittorio Bertola
vb at bertola.eu
Fri May 11 17:18:11 EDT 2007
Nick Ashton-Hart ha scritto:
> 2) Nothing would prevent you from noting preferences for only one, or
> two, out of the three, and not setting a second or a third preference.
> So, the effect you might achieve would be the same.
First, let me state that I do not like this voting system at all.
However, this was what was adopted in Lisbon by a meeting where most
ALSes were present, including Christoph and Wolfgang (so not just ISOC
chapters), so I think that, for the sake of closing this painful process
which reminds me of the worst days of icannatlarge.com, we'd better live
with it for the time being.
However, and this was discussed in Lisbon, there is a requirement that
you rank ALL candidates. This is because, with this system, the best
candidates are the ones whose sum of rankings is the lowest. So for
example in this case:
Voter 1: 1. Candidate A, 2. Candidate B, 3. Candidate C
Voter 2: 1. Candidate B, 2. Candidate C, 3. Candidate A
the final result would be:
1. Candidate B = 3 points
2. Candidate A = 4 points
3. Candidate C = 5 points
However, if Voter 2 did not rank Candidate A (possibly because he/she
thinks that A is a really bad person), and only stated two preferences,
A would not get points and so the result would be:
1. Candidate A = 1 point
2. Candidate B = 4 points
3. Candidate C = 5 points
which is the exact opposite of what Voter 2 would have liked to get.
This is why there is the need to rank all candidates, none excluded...
so that the ones you really don't like get a lot of points from you and
sink down the list :-)
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