----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Weller" <dougwel...@gmail.com> > To: "UK Wikimedia mailing list" <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Sunday, 30 September, 2012 6:35:55 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK board election process > > Thank you for this. From my viewpoint your explanation (with which I > agree) is a strong arugment for STV.
>From my own experience, I would note that whilst STV is perfect for electing a >single person it is very far from acceptable when electing a number of people >because of the requirement to survive the first round of analysis. If someone >has minimal support as a first choice but very wide support as a second or >third choice they may be ejected before that wide support can be accounted >for, especially if one candidate in the first round takes 80% or so of the >first choices (making their distributed partial second preferences far >'stronger', in effect.) I have seen almost entire committees wiped out in this >way despite - once you looked at the lower-preference votes - them retaining >wide support. STV really isn't up to the job. Approval voting, whilst itself not perfect, does far better at selecting for a number of positions. AlisonW _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
