On 12/15/2012 03:39 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Michael Catanzaro <mike.catanzaro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 02:36 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Could you explain what you mean with a "runoff" ?
cheers
In an election to fill one position, when no candidate gets 50% of the votes, a runoff election may be held with just the top two finishers. E.g. say 40% of the people like Candidate A, 32% like Candidate B, and 28% like Candidate C. But B and C are really similar and B/C supporters don't like A. If there's no runoff, then A gets 40% of the vote and wins, even though 60% of the electorate would prefer B or C. (That's what happens in almost every election in the USA.)
Every election maybe, but not every race. So where I live if we have 15 races to vote on, typically one or more of the races won't get 50% and there is a run-off election a few weeks later.
For openSUSE we can make up any rules we want.
eg. A winner must have 40% of voters minimum in the first vote to be declared a winner.
If only one candidate achieves 40%, then the candidates with the 2nd and 3rd most votes will be in a runoff.
If no candidate achieves 40%, then the top 3 candidates go to a runoff.
fyi: i have no idea what good cutoff would be. Where I live it is 50% for political elections, but it can be whatever works best for openSUSE.
Hmm, sounds very complicated. The openSUSE rules are pretty straight forward, https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules#Voting: . Those with the most votes (by count) win, just a straight tally of the numbers, no calculation of percentages, run off votes, multiple rounds etc. I think this has worked pretty well for us so far. I am not certain why we would need to expand the procedure. AFAIK, to this point we have not had a situation where 2 or more candidates had the same vote count. I suppose that scenario is possible, and then there could be a second round of voting between tied candidates for 1 seat. The second round could then also just follow the simple vote count rule we already have. Anyway, this is rather theoretical and we probably do not have to worry about it until 2 or more candidates actually do have the exact same vote count. My $0.02, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org