Board Composition Proposal

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 17:15, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am for this if we can change how we elect people (either make voting
>> mandatory, change range-voting to a more parliamentary system, and/or
>> make voting per seat versus pool). As I have said before, while I
>> would have gotten this slot if there had been one more seat
>> available.. the difference in votes for me versus the next candidate
>> (and versus the other 2 contenders) was significant.
>
> It's difficult to see how we actually do this while having multiple
> seats up for election at the same time. We don't have any concept of
> districting by which to separate seats out as distinct opportunities.
>

It is more of my understanding of Range Voting as a method to select
seats and isn't meant to be used for a pool of seats. With a pool we
could go with something much more simpler and be as valid (vote
+1/0/-1 for a candidate and those with the most votes above 0 get in
:)). The seats is mainly for making keeping change as simple as
possible in the election system.



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