[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

[Anthony]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> Another way of looking at this is that you really are indifferent
>> between all unacceptable candidates.  You may hate Castro more than
>> Satan, but either way if one of them wins and the board ratifies the
>> decision you should leave the project and work actively against it.
>> And from the other side of the coin, if a voter doesn't think either
>> of two candidates are acceptable, their vote shouldn't count anyway.
>
> Sounds like am argument for IRV. ;)
>
> Or really, under your line of thinking, plurality with voters who are
> always honest about their preferences would probably be ideal.  Dunno
> where you find voters who are always honest. ;)
>
No, I don't think plurality voting would be ideal because I think
independence of clones is important.  Unless you can convince (and
allow) the clones to form political parties and hold primaries,
anyway.