Markus Schulze> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:28 PM > in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval > voting for the elections of its Board of Trustees. > > No candidate was approved by a majority.
Given that this was 3-member election, is that any surprise? Surely the surprise in such an election would be if any candidate did obtain a majority of the votes. The subject line says this was a Condorcet election, but the presentation of the results gives no indication of that. Indeed, from the votes listed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en it looks like a multi-member first-past-the-post election in which the top three take the three seats. James Gilmour No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1525 - Release Date: 29/06/2008 15:09 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info