Board Composition Proposal

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 06:45:24PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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.
> 
Wait... You mean one pool and just have votes of +1/0/-1 for everyone?  If
so, that's still range voting.... (believe it or not, Vote +1/0/-1 and only
+1 counts is also range voting. It's distinctive enough that it has its own
name, though: approval voting).

-Toshio
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