On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:55:11 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:29:23AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> To select "events coordinators", for example, we might want to have >> five people each on a different continent, even though three of the >> best events coordinators happen to be in Europe, on the basis that >> one European, one North American and one South/Latin American would >> be more useful than three Europeans. > BTW, that's the question of whether a single election with multiple > winners is the right election to use. In that case, it's better to > simply have five elections, one for each continent, but allowing the > same candidate to run for more than one seat. :) If the same candidate wins all elections, or if people from one city win all elections, would that be an acceptable outcome? manoj -- The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. H.G. Wells, "Time After Time" Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]