I too think the election committee should just decide. (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it however Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee should decide.)
Stormy On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Winship <d...@gnome.org> wrote: > On 06/25/2009 12:30 PM, john palmieri wrote: > > If it is a disagreement on how votes should be counted then the vote is > > flawed and I propose we have a runoff between the candidates who were on > > one list but not the other. > > I'm not terribly familiar with STV and its variations, but it seems to > me that if we assume people's votes in the runoff will be generally > consistent with their votes in the original election, then the result of > the runoff would be determined as much by the choice of STV variant used > in the runoff than by the actual votes (which could more or less be > predicted ahead of time), and so this isn't really much different from > just letting the election committee retroactively declare which variant > they meant to use in the original election. > > -- Dan > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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