[maemo-community] STV voting strategy

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:
>
[snip]
> I didn't mean you should vote for other than your #1. I just think that
> with ranking method the next positions have bigger effect [...]

BTW, this is a good discussion to have. Whilst this round of voting is
fresh in our minds, and the votes are easily analysable, I don't see a
problem with changing it *again* (if a consensus emerges that a change
may be necessary).

Personally, I'm happy with the result but a discussion on how we got
here, and how we can best explain the voting is a Good Thing[TM].

My own interpretation when voting (which is probably unscientific and
inaccurate; I don't spend all day working out voting models) was "if
choice #1 isn't going to get elected, who would I rather see next?"
*not* "I want all my vote to be split up and allocated in these
proportions to these candidates".

Cheers,

Andrew

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