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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections
From:       Ben McIlwain <cydeweys () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-09-19 5:24:48
Message-ID: 450F7F20.70905 () gmail ! com
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Nathaniel Krause wrote:
> I'm not too comfortable with the implication that there is a wrong
> and right way to use approval voting in this election. It strikes me
> as a bug rather than a feature that Board elections currently don't
> allow the voter to express any preference at all among the candidates
> that she or he finds acceptable.

A bug?  No, preference voting isn't a "bug", it's simply another style
of voting, along with plurality, Borda count, Condorcet criterion, etc.
 It's possible to create an infinite number of sets of voters such that
a different candidate wins in each election for each different
vote-counting method.  It's one of those tricky mathematical problems
... how do you count and tabulate opinion?  For what it's worth, I
prefer the preference vote, because many mathematicians have looked at
the issue very carefully and it's what they use when voting amongst
themselves.

> I'd really like to see WMF switch to a form of Condorcet voting, such
> as the Schultze method, for the next elections. This would allow the
> voter the flexibility to rank candidates in order of preference, or
> to rank several equally if they prefer.


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Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")

~ Ubi olim vita, nunc vita ~
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