[maemo-community] STV voting strategy

[From: gary liquid]

i think we should put the candidates in a ring.

they can choose weapons from the nokia range

last 5 standing make it to the council



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > 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".
>
> Yes but we have 5 positions so I'd like to select 5 people and see all
> of them in the council and only then think like this for 6th position.
> Actually I'm not sure if proportional or any other method would make any
> real difference in the results but still I have this (possibly wrong)
> feeling and my mind cannot wrap around this concept of having one vote
> for selecting 5 preferred people :-)
>
> Frantisek
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