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

[SJ Klein]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> Labeling the "chads" (for want of a better word) with Approve and Dissaprove
> would be a fantastic innovation.
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> However  the option of  voting yes/no/dunno, no no no and further no.
> That would make strategical voting even more hair-raisingly byzantine.
> Please no, just no.

As long as the diff b/t no and dunno has no impact on the result of the 
election, I can see this being useful.  But I agree that labelling the 
chads is a minor interface coup.

SJ