Josip Rodin writes ("electing multiple people"): > So, I proposed the following addition to the section A.6. Vote Counting > (part of appendix A Standard Resolution Procedure):
As I've said in the meeting at Debconf and on debian-project, I think this is the wrong way to do because this voting system implicitly asks the wrong question. Voting systems like STV and its derivatives (including Condorcet) assume that: * The number of people to be appointed is fixed in advance * The candidates ought to compete against each other. These assumptions are not true for our social committee. We discussed at some length in the meeting at Debconf the problem with electing a social committee, namely that a good social committee will do much of its work informally, quietly and behind the scenes. So the most effective members will have nothing to show. Actively harmful SC members will be easy to spot of course because they'll cause flamewars etc. Inactive or lazy SC members are not a problem and we can just keep them. So, as I have said before, we should use straight per-candidate approval voting. That is: the DPL should propose candidates, which the electorate will separately vote on. That is, if the DPL proposes Alice Bob Carol Dave Elspeth then each voter gets to choose Alice ? - choose Yes/No/Abstain Bob ? - choose Yes/No/Abstain etc. and if more people vote `yes' for Alice than vote `no' for Alice then Alice is appointed - regardless of any votes for or against Bob, Carol, etc. This means that if we have lots of candidates we like we have a big committee. I think this is fine if the committee has a reasonably streamlined process for making its own decisions. Even the cumbersome process mandated for the TC seems to cope fairly well with TC members who fail to participate, and of course we should give the SC the ability to set its own rules. There would have to be a minimum committee size, in case the voters rejected too many of the candidates. If the committee falls below the minimum size it loses its powers until more candidates are proposed, approved and appointed. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]