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

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When we start thinking in terms of "tickets" then we are talking parties. I
would really hate it if what we do get politicised to this extend. It does
not matter much what system is used, the point is that we vote for a person
that is considered to be the suitable for the job. With politics creeping
into our system in this way, we become less of a community and the
polarisation and apathy will both grow.

Really do we want party politics ???

Thanks,
      GerardM

On 7/13/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/13/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Here in Australia we use STV for elections to the Australian Senate,
> > and we deal with the problem of having to rank very large numbers of
> > candidates by using group tickets, the idea being that a voter votes
> > for a ticket, and is taken to have ranked the candidates in the order
> > that the ticket has set out beforehand. That's probably far too
> > complicated for our purposes though.
> >
>
> I won't say it is complicated, because actually it is simpler, letting
> the party do your thinking for you. But it definitely is something
> that if we ever, or somebody ever, whatever, tried to institute
> here, there would be me at the forefront, with the bayonets at
> the ready, and barricades raised. We want to make it easier for
> the voter to choose, we don't want to let somebody else choose
> *for* them.
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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