[maemo-community] Election process referendum

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> Once the people have spoken, we'll figure out the technical details of
>> actually running the election. I would really like us to use single
>> transferrable vote, which is easy to understand as a voter, and easy to
>> understand when checking the results.
> 
> How much time will we need to get the software setup for STV according
> to the wiki proposal and the Wikipedia page? It could occur ahead of
> the results, if we make the (dangerous?) assumption that our preferred
> option will wimn.

We'd need to modify the database to accommodate preferential voting
before the election, and that's it, so not much time.

Then we need to get the votes out of the database in a format that
openstv can understand, which is pretty trivial. And then I can publish
the results manually. But all that comes during the election period &
after the election.

Cheers,
Dave.

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