Board Composition Proposal

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 20:21, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> You know, I'd like this not to be a referendum on the voting method.
> If whatever we are doing is ok for 2 or 3 open seats on the board it
> is surely good enough for 3 or 4 open seats. If it is good enough for
> 4 or 5 open seats on FESCo and 7 open seats on FAmSCo I don't get why
> this is an issue. While I think it is not to my taste, I see it as a
> side issue.

You are right.. I will remove my pet peeve from the discussion at the moment :).





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