On Saturday, December 15, 2012 15:39:01 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.
But then we need to enforce voting by member - or declare active/passive members. What if 60 % of the members don't vote at all? You could say, there should be then a second voting - but all this complicates voting. Let's keep the rules simple, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org