[Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF Board ofTrustees election

[Philippe Beaudette]

For the record, the Election Committee spent quite some time discussing voting systems this year: in the end, I think we all agreed that in order to meet the extremely aggressive timetable we had set, there was no way we could change the voting system (with the applicable software and policy changes) within the allotted time.  

Speaking personally, I hope that this is a major topic of discussion as we do a "post-election wrapup".  

Philippe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Halasz 
  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF Board ofTrustees election


  I assume this has already been discussed before, but rather than
  tweaking the system we're currently using ("approval voting"), why not
  use a different voting system in future that doesn't have these
  problems. Namely using preferential voting (i.e. ordering your votes,
  for instant runoff)? Then voters have to think less about the strategy
  needed to express their preferences.

  Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
  As approval voting does not offer a single method of expressing
  sincere preferences, but rather a plethora of them, voters are
  encouraged to analyze their fellow voters' preferences and use that
  information to decide which candidates to vote for.

  See also:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

  Peter Halasz
  (user:Pengo)

  Also, am I the only one who thinks that 4000 ballots is not a bad turnout?

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