<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Flegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@bleb.org">andrew@bleb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Dave Neary <<a href="mailto:dneary@maemo.org">dneary@maemo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
> If the community feels there is a need to codify this (to avoid future<br>
> debates every election, or to protect against Mugabe-type counting<br>
> systems) then let's propose a 3 choice election: STV, RRV, no change.<br>
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</div>You see, I think Ryan's desperate to hang on to the title and will<br>
eagerly railroad Simon, Eduardo, Tim and me into maintaining power,<br>
turning the chairman into an emperor, dissolving the last remnants of<br>
the Old Republic and at last having revenge on the Jedi :-)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andrew</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmmm... I have a proposal that we may both find helpful. We could add a sixth seat, and to prevent 3-on-3 deadlocks, we'd _have_ to grant the E^HChairman extra power (say, a double vote). Also, I recommend a hybrid of range and approval voting, where incumbent members and those with over 4000 posts in itT (because the voters have seen enough of them to make finely graduated ratings) are rated from 0-99, while other candidates are approval voted with 0 or 1 (because voters haven't seen enough of them to accurately assess fine nuances.</div>
<div><br></div><div>P.S. We should consider the title of "General" rather than "Emperor", or at least as an interim step; less negative connotations, easy formalization of popular acclaim, and confers exactly no necessary distinction in power and behavior.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Benson</div></div>