[Foundation-l] The average voter and voting systems (was Re: Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election)

[Delphine Ménard]

On 7/13/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just because I am not familiar with STV.  On a list of say 10
> > candidates, can you chose to number the number of candidates that you
> > want, or do you have to number all candidates?
>
> Typically yes, one must rank all of the candidates in order of
> preference. But it's certainly possible to allow voters to rank as few
> or as many candidates as they wish.
>
> The downside is that it can result in wasted votes (eg, if I ranked 5
> out of a field of 10, but all the 5 that I ranked were eliminated, my
> vote has nowhere to go and is exhausted), but it's much more
> convenient.

Thanx cimon and Stephen for the explanation. In that instance, I must
say that I had indeed toyed with the idea of eventually "wasting" my
vote. ie. I'd rather waste my vote than eventually give it to someone
I would never have voted for.


Delphine

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