[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Jon Harald Søby]

On 9/19/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'll see no love of Bush from me, but your complaint is factually
> inaccurate: Bush won the popular vote in the second election and even
> had more then 50% of the votes.
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_2004#Election_results]
>
> Even in the case of the first election, to me it seems a bit foolish
> to complain about the electoral system when the popular vote was well
> within the margin of error of the voting system overall.  ... and can
> you really look at a results by state map
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_2000#Results]
> and say that it is entirely unfair that Gore did not win?
>
> It's simply not a black and white issue... and it's not fair to fault
> an election process because it didn't go the way you prefer.
>
> In the future it would make sense not to disrupt discussion about
> Wikimedia operations with offtopic politically loaded interjections.


I don't want to take this on this list, because of its off-topic
nature (and was stupid to get caught up in the moment and post it in
the first place); I'll reply to you in private later. =)

Anyways, my point was that indirect elections _might_ turn out to have
inaccurate results (though that is a rather rare situation), and that
it would be especially hard to arrange this on Wikimedia projects.

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