[governance] Co-coordinator Election Results

Craig Simon cls at rkey.com
Mon Dec 21 10:08:50 EST 2009


Fearghas McKay wrote:
> Moving onto election processes - can I suggest consideration of STV 
> voting? Single Transferable Vote 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote .
> 
> We use it within Working Groups at the RIPE RIR for electing Co-Chairs, 
> eg the two recent EIX-WG elections, and it is used in Euro-IX the IXP 
> trade association for Board Election. It allows a voter to express 
> preferences as well as a single choice candidate. You only vote for who 
> you want to vote for, even if it is only one person.
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FYI, like STV, the system I've been developing emphasizes ranked choice 
voting. It uses a combination of Borda Count and Instant Runoff Voting 
algorithms to tabulate results.

Craig Simon
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