On 9/18/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/18/06, Death Phoenix originaldeathphoenix@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