[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Duarte Carreira]

For what it's worth I really, really, agree with Howard. When things go smoothly it's irrelevant. But it's a huge mess  when they don't... Better safe than sorry...

Best,
Duarte

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De: Howard Butler [mailto:hobu.inc at gmail.com] 
Enviada: quarta-feira, 25 de Julho de 2012 21:24
Para: osgeo-discuss
Assunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting


> On 2012/07/24, at 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> 
>> Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by the charter member) in the Board election.
>> 
>> Advantages:
>> The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her more than once.

Disadvantages:

It allows a small, concentrated, and coordinated group of people to ensure that their one or two preferred candidates make it onto the board without otherwise having broad support of the electorate. After one or two election cycles, the board could be replaced with these "selected" board members through this effort.  Giving a member the ability to give 5 votes to one individual essentially gives them 5x the voting power for an individual candidate, and considering the fact that generally speaking the majority of the electorate doesn't stack their votes, differentially provides them even more voting power.  A statistical analysis and simulation of how this weighting works is left to the reader.

One member, one candidate, one vote. 

What is needs of the electorate or board are being served by having our election procedure be something otherwise?

Howard