[Foundation-l] Don't waste your vote!

[Robert Horning]

Søren Kiersted wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
>   
>> One should always vote *for* a candidate, never against, imho.
>>
>> Alison Wheeler
>> (writing purely personally)
>>     
>
> The people who write the rules do not agree with your personal view.
>
> "Approval voting" is just a polite word for "disapproval voting". When
> you do not select someone you are disapproving them and the ones with
> the least disapproval win.  It is exactly equal only the name changes.
>   

At least one person on the Wikibooks Staff Lounge has announced a blank 
ballot sheet.  I.E. they have voted for absolutely nobody, but voted 
"present".  I have absolutely no idea what that means in terms of vote 
totals and how that impacts the election, but it would be an interesting 
sentiment to see how many do just that (in this case intentionally).  Or 
those who voted for "everybody".

Approval voting can be gamed like many other voting systems, but it at 
least is a consistent system that was known about ahead of time prior to 
the election.  I voted a mixed ticket myself (several votes of approval 
and several that I did not vote for).

-- Robert Horning