IIRC the GNOME election process also uses a calculation like this. May be someone like Vincent Untz may get more details (I am not following all the mails in the thread so sorry if I have missed an earlier mail on the same). I also believe that this is a much better electoral system. On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> 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.
Greg
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