On 2012-12-16 08:48:35 (-0500), Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@suse.com> wrote:
On 12/15/2012 03:39 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: [...] 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.
Agreed. We do have a lot of candidates this time though, more than for past elections, afaicr.
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.
I think so too. And anyway, changing the rules of the board election is something 1) we shouldn't do while the election is on-going ;) 2) the board should decide before the next elections (possibly with a vote by members to ack/nack, although that's implicit through the board election process, I'd prefer to not add more process to it ...) If such a scenario arises, the election committee should discuss with the current board to see what to do. A "cutoff" (or "second round" as it's known e.g. in France) is an option indeed, if we find a simple and straightforward variant :) But unless that happens, and it's really unlikely to happen, one can win with 0.001% of votes, and IMHO that's still simple enough, and works. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf