[maemo-community] Suggestion for election instructions

[From: Arek]

If we just put information

*The voting method is single transferable vote (STV) so in the end only one
of your candidates gets your vote (in the order of your preference)*.

For 99% of people it won't mean anything. This info, in my opinion, belongs
to wiki as technicality, not in general voting instructions.

Best regards / Med venlig hilsen / Z poważaniem,

Arek



On 18 March 2010 13:37, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Dave Neary wrote:
>
>> Could people give me some feedback on the following instructions email,
>> please?
>>
>>
>> http://vcs.maemo.org/svn/maemo2midgard/maemo-elections/scripts/instructions.txt
>>
>
> I am missing the voting method mentioned somewhere. There is the "Then
> select your preferred candidates in order of preference." sentence but no
> explanation how the preference actually affects the result. I would add
> something like
>
> The voting method is single transferable vote (STV) so in the end only one
> of your candidates gets your vote (in the order of your preference).
>
> Anyone else thinks it is important enough to be included or is it too
> complex and would confuse the matter? I am trying to prevent possible
> confusion. Without knowing the method people might think that by making the
> list of candidates the vote would somehow be proportionally counted for
> more/all candidates on the list or whatever.
>
> Frantisek
>
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