[maemo-community] STV voting strategy

[From: Tim]

"Five men entah, one man leaves."



gary liquid wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     _______________________________________________
>     maemo-community mailing list
>     maemo-community at maemo.org <mailto:maemo-community at maemo.org>
>     https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-community mailing list
> maemo-community at maemo.org
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community

-- 
http://tim.samoff.com