Re: electing multiple people
Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> wrote: [...]
> So, scrapping that - how does the election of multiple candidates in
> the SPI board election work? (weasel?)
Badly. I think it's similar to election-by-blacklist. It seems
particularly vulnerable to prejudice and smears, which should kill off
any debian social committee if those influence its election. If we
used a similar system, social committee couldn't really predict
consensus with most minorities, because only majority-acceptable
representatives of minorities (poodles?) would get elected.
Proportionality is very important for a social-committee. If it has
deep disagreements on certain topics (like Anglo-Victorian values, for
example), then it will be correctly reflecting the wider social
situation. The important thing will be to give it deadlock-busting
working methods.
In more detail on the SPI voting system:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.spi.general/482
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/spi#elections
Hope that helps,
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