Re: [atlarge-discuss] About The Bullet Vote Concept...

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Walter Schmidt wrote:

> From my point of view, if you do not vote for 11, and vote (say) for only
> four, all you are doing is letting someone else determine who are the
> "other 7"
>
> The concept of a "bullet vote" sounds like a concept one might foist on a
> group in an attempt to "steal the majority" of seats.

Exactly, Walter:

If there are 100 candidates, 90 of whom I do not know enough about want them
to represent me on our Panel,  why would you want me to damage your chance
of electing a candidate that YOU want to be on the Panel, simply because I
am expected to vote for 11 people?

You may really want # 99 but I and a few others may vote for #98, not
because I think she is the right person but because you feel I have to vote
for 11 candidates.  The result may well be that my vote caused the person
that I did not want anyway, to be elected in place of the person that you
really did want to see on the Panel.  I can think of no good reason for
voting for a candidate that I do have any reason to see elected, but I am
very happy to see you elect anyone that you feel will be good for the job.

That my friend is democracy. To encourage people to vote for candidates that
they don't know enough about to warrant their support (on the pretext that
it is bad for someone else to choose their own representatives) does not
make for good representation.

Please explain to me how this could possibly amount to "stealing the
majority of seats".

Regards, Ron


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Schmidt" <walts@dorsai.org>
To: "Atlarge Discuss List" <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Cc: "Walter Schmidt" <walts@dorsai.org>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] About The Bullet Vote Concept...


>
> On Mon, 26 May 2003, it was written:
>
> > When a few people are voting for a Panel to be chosen from a large
> > number of candidates, it takes very few votes to get elected.  The
> > bullet vote, is the only method available for limiting the possibility
> > of election of a candidate that you do not want to support.  In other
> > words, vote only for the candidates that you really want to see elected.
>
> There will be eleven elected. There is no minimum votes necessary to be
> elected. We could have four people with 150 votes each and seven people
> with 2 votes each - not likely but...
>
> From my point of view, if you do not vote for 11, and vote (say) for only
> four, all you are doing is letting someone else determine who are the
> "other 7"
>
> The concept of a "bullet vote" sounds like a concept one might foist on a
> group in an attempt to "steal the majority" of seats.
>
> I will defer to a statistician...
>
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