On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
You just announced the results based on first-past-the-post, when the
elections were to be run using preferential voting, with single
transferable vote and fractional surplus transfer.
Ah ! the famous 'Meek' method (no relation);
Is it really fair if people can't agree on how it works? Seems to go
against the GNOME principle of simplicity by adding more choices to fix some
of the issues of voting. I'm all for making things more fair but I'm not
sure the complexity actually fixes things or hides the issues under a layer
Hi,
john palmieri wrote:
Is it really fair if people can't agree on how it works? Seems to go
against the GNOME principle of simplicity by adding more choices to fix
some of the issues of voting. I'm all for making things more fair but
I'm not sure the complexity actually fixes things or
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
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
Is it just not a good year to have elections? :)
behdad
On 06/25/2009 12:30 PM, john palmieri wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org
mailto:dne...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi,
The way forward seems clear to me - the membership committee decides
what
2009/6/25 john palmieri john.j5.palmi...@gmail.com:
Is it really fair if people can't agree on how it works? Seems to go
against the GNOME principle of simplicity by adding more choices to fix some
of the issues of voting. I'm all for making things more fair but I'm not
sure the complexity
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM, 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.
