On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:26:53AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava 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?

I wasn't trying to provide an end-all solution to the said problem :)

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