Re: electing multiple people

[Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:29:23AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> To select "events coordinators", for example, we might want to have
> five people each on a different continent, even though three of the
> best events coordinators happen to be in Europe, on the basis that one
> European, one North American and one South/Latin American would be more
> useful than three Europeans.

BTW, that's the question of whether a single election with multiple winners
is the right election to use. In that case, it's better to simply have five
elections, one for each continent, but allowing the same candidate to run
for more than one seat. :)

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