Hi Per, On Friday 21 December 2012 11:10:53 Per Jessen wrote:
Because of the invisibility of the board and lack of interest. I think the latter is partially due to the former.
This could indeed be the case. Especially when I look at the programs of each candidate, then the invisibility of the board was a major topic.
The STV model that was proposed is used in Australia, I think. Besides, to start with, we ought to discuss if anything is actually wrong with the current model. For instance, what is the problem with an elected board member having received less than 50% of the votes? It is not at all unusual for prime ministers in continental Europe to have received less than 50% of the votes. (not an optimal comparison, but still).
I agree :-) I don't see any problems with the current model, but it seems that some of our community members would like to see a different model.
we should improve the current election process to make sure that we are giving all possible choices to our members so that we can see an increase in the voting members.
You seem to be thinking that the election process is causing people not to vote? I don't think that is the problem at all. I mean, can anyone really imagine interested members going to the election page, then turning in away in disgust: "I really don't like that election process" ? Also, if the process was really an issue, we would surely have had much more discussion about it before the election.
No, you misunderstood me, but maybe I was not clear enough. As you already indicated the current election process does not support all the choices a voter would like to see. I would like to improve the current process by making sure that all options are there. Maybe at this moment a lot of the voters didn't like any of the candidates and therefore didn't vote. Perhaps with a "Blank Vote or None of the above" we would have seen a higher number of people actually casting a vote and the percentages could have been different. If we have a lot of people voting blank, then there could be an issue that the candidates are seen as "not good enough". If we still see a low voting rate, then we know that the topic itself is no longer interesting. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org