[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Death Phoenix]

On 9/18/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I voted for three people who I felt would be the best and
> most-qualified:
> > there is one who I think is the most qualified, and two who are about
> equal.
> > I wonder if I am doing my first choice user a disservice by voting for
> the
> > other two, and instead just vote for the one who I think is the clear
> > frontrunner.
>
> Based on the counts in the previous elections a huge number of people
> only supported one... In my discussions with people I found that many
> that supported only one in the election actually thought that multiple
> would have done an okay job, but either didn't understand or didn't
> feel comfortable with the approval voting process.
>
> For each person like you who used the approval process correctly there
> will probably be four who tried to game it by only picking their first
> choice.
>
> Based on the power lawish  distribution of approval in the last
> election, it's safe to say that your first choice is likely the same
> as a lot of other people's first choice.... so your preference is
> still represented even if you approved multiple people.
>
> It's unfortunate that we're using an approval vote when it appears
> that most of our voters view it as something else.
>

Ah, then I'll leave my votes as is. :-) Based on your comments above, it
would seem that Cynical nailed this down perfectly: he singled out three
people who wouldn't be good, and approved of everyone else.

DP