I don't think STV makes much sense unless we are picking more then
one. The key in STV is that the extra votes for the "winner" get
passed on to the choice. Since there really is not a next choice it
does not help.
Instant Runoff however does make sense. We cycle through the votes
and at each "round" toss out the losing candidate. In each round,
everyone gets to vote for their top choice of available candidates
until something has a majority or no other candidates are left. If
there is a tie at the end, the STV tally can break the tie.
We could rank more then 4 to ensure that the rounds could go
longer... but i hope that is not necessary. For things to work out
though it is important that everyone vote for the same number of
choices.
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
Doesn't limiting to top 4 defeat the purpose of using STV to overcome
splitting-the-vote?
Seems like we should rank the whole list (or all that an individual
finds acceptable)
-Yonik
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Ryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This thread is for solr committers to list the top 4 logos
preferences from
the community logo contest. As a guide, we should look at:
http://people.apache.org/~ryan/solr-logo-results.html
The winner will be tabulated using "instant runoff voting" -- if this
happens to result in a tie, the winner will be picked by the 'Single
transferable vote'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
To cast a valid vote, you *must* include 4 options.
ryan
