[maemo-community] Final candidate list for Community Council elections

[From: Simon Pickering]

There was an interesting article in New Scientist about voting theory:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19826511.600-why-first
pastthepost-voting-is-flawed.html

Bit late now, but interesting nevertheless.

Cheers,


Simon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-community-bounces at maemo.org 
> [mailto:maemo-community-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of 
> Frantisek Dufka
> Sent: 03 September 2008 10:23
> To: List for community development
> Subject: Re: Final candidate list for Community Council elections
> 
> Dave Neary wrote:
> > A reminder: the election is being run as a one-man-one-vote 
> first 5 past
> > the post election, you will only be able to vote for one 
> (1) candidate,
> > so choose wisely!
> > 
> 
> I'd like to have definition for 'wisely' here :-)
> 
> If I want more specific candidates in the concil I basically need to
> vote for the one which I guess will get less votes. Once 
> everybody does
> this the situation will reverse. OTOH if I choose the first one on my
> list and my guess is correct the second one might not get 
> enough votes.
> 
> So how one can choose wisely with such system?
> 
> What is bad with having 5 votes (for each member)? I'm really asking
> because I don't know voting theory. Without much thinking I 
> suppose you
> will just get 5 more votes, it won't change anything else, and it will
> solve the issue mentioned above.
> 
> So basically why to use one-man-one-vote system when council has 5 
> members (not 1)?
> 
> 
> Frantisek
> 
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