[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Brief summary and reflections for the next election

Thu Jan 28 11:23:18 PST 2021

There are multiple ways to do rank choice voting from fairly simple to fairly complicated.

In a simple approach with, for example 12 candidates for 9 seats, everyone ranks the 12 candidates from 12 (highest) to 1 (lowest). Then the ranks of all voters are summed and the 9 with the highest numbers win.

The US state of Maine has created a more complicated approach to RCV for its political elections (see: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-senate-elections-voting-maine-united-states-355f2859cf5dabf25bb0bb953f9c66bd)

Michael

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From: grass-psc <grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 11:59 AM
To: Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 <cro.grass at osgeo.org>
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Subject: Re: [GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Brief summary and reflections for the next election

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:10 PM Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 <variablestarlight at gmail.com<mailto:variablestarlight at gmail.com>> wrote:

On 2021-01-28 17:44, Michael Barton wrote:
I agree with Huidae. Pretty much simultaneously with the GRASS PSC elections, CoMSES.Net held executive board election. We also ran into glitches with this remote voting and eventually had to rerun the election. So the GRASS one went very well. Thanks. Having a way to work out a list of eligible voters is important but I’m sure that GRASS expertise can solve it. Perhaps we can then propose this to US states who are wrestling with the same question and often proposing really bad solutions 😉

Michael

I got a suggestion, by Rich Shepard, about "ranked choice voting (RCV?)". I have no experience with it but possibly something the PSC may want to have a look at.

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Hernán,

I'm not familiar with RCV either, but does it mean we only count the first preference, like one voter chooses only one candidate or non-first preferences don't matter at all (then why more than one preference per voter)? I'd like to learn more about RCV for multiple selections.

Best,
Huidae

/H.

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From: grass-psc <grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 <variablestarlight at gmail.com><mailto:variablestarlight at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Brief summary and reflections for the next election
On 2021-01-28 15:04, Huidae Cho wrote:
> Hernán and all,
>
> First of all, many thanks to Hernán for organizing the election. I
> think it was very smooth.

Thank you, Huidae.

> I believe the most challenging and important task in any election is
> to prepare a tidy voters registry. At the moment, we have multiple
> lists of contributors in different repositories. It would be much
> easier to avoid human errors if we combined them into a single list,
> maybe in the core or web repository. Also, for identifying
> individuals, we can create a unique ID for each contributor based on
> their name (e.g., first initial + middle initial + last name) when
> they first join the community to avoid using email addresses (or even
> github IDs for a potential migration to another platform in the
> future), which can change any time. Last, as for sending an email to
> someone who has been away from the community for a while, we could
> utilize mailing archives to check if they have been active in the
> community in the past couple of years. We can discuss further in the
> first meeting.
>
+1 for unique IDs, wheter related to GitHub or not, they are very useful.
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