Discussion - Proposed Constitution - voting
As I've been setting up the balloting system for the upcoming Constitution
vote and talking to peopl on IRC, We've discovered a few things that might
not be immediatly obvious...
The balloting is supposed to be by ranking choices. Something similar to:
[ 2 ] Original Proposal
[ 1 ] With Amendment 1
[ ] With Amendment 2
[ ] With Amendments 1 and 2
[ 4 ] No
[ 3 ] Further Discussion
This ballot would say that the voter prefers the proposal with amendment one
or, failing that, with no amendment... after that, in order, to discuss the
matter further, no resolution at all... under no circumstances does he want
amendment 2.
Not too complicated if not quite a YES/NO/ABSTAIN system
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Next item you might not be aware of:
It's possible for a choice to get more 1st-choice votes and still lose...
follow:
The vote gets five ballots and has three choices:
Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4 Person 5
-------- -------- -------- -------- --------
CHOICE 2 CHOICE 3 CHOICE 2 CHOICE 3 CHOICE 1
CHOICE 1 CHOICE 1 CHOICE 1 CHOICE 1 CHOICE 2
CHOICE 3 CHOICE 2 CHOICE 3 CHOICE 2 CHOICE 3
Choice 1 has the least amount of first preference however it will still win the
vote. Here's how:
1-2 3 ballots prefer c1 to c2 while 2 prefer c2 to c1... c1 "Dominates" c2
So we have 1 "Dominating" 2 (3-2) and 1 "Dominating" 3 (also 3-2)... therefore
1 would win the voting even though it was most peoples second choice.
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Remeber, to change any of this, it would require an amendment to the proposal
of the constitution....
In my series messages, I'll set up (another) test for anybody and everybody
(who's a developer) to try that will try to show this feature...
- Darren
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