On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:53:11 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Also, am I the only one bothered by winners having less than 50%? If so, we can leave it as it is.
I'm not, because statistically when you have a larger number of candidates than 2, it's likely the winner will have < 50% of the vote. It'd be possible in a three candidate race for a single position to win with 34% of the vote.
That's the way the math works out. There's no need to complicate things further with a more elaborate voting system.
Jim Jim,
You're totally correct about the math, but at least in the USA, we tend to have election rules that reduce the number of candidates until one of them gets 50%. The STV approach is a way to allow voters to register the preferences all at once, then there is an algorithm to modify their vote as candidates are dropped from consideration. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org