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RE: [atlarge-discuss] About The Bullet Vote Concept...
| 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?
I agree. We should only vote for candidates we really want on the panel.
No members should feel compelled to "fill out their 11 votes" if they aren't
familiar enough with the candidates being offered. If that reduces the
total vote count, that's OK. But as Ron points out, the alternative is
someone getting voted in just because a group of users felt compelled to
make 11 votes, and voted for them because they liked the sound of their
name, or their picture on their info page was way cool! :) We need
workers, not celebrities or models! Now if the candidate is known to you to
be a hard-working celebrity or model, then by all means vote for them! :)
Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon
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I concur
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ron Sherwood [mailto:sherwood@islands.vi]
| Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 3:47 PM
| To: Walter Schmidt
| Cc: IAL
| Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] About The Bullet Vote Concept...
|
|
| 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...
| >
| > --
| >
| > --- REgards, walts@dorsai.org Walter C. Schmidt, IT CPA
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| > - - Associate Expert - Expert Zone
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| > --- http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
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| > - -
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| > - - 52 Ken http://www.dorsai.org/~walts/
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| >
| >
| >
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