[Foundation-l] Don't waste your vote!

Sun Jul 1 01:15:55 UTC 2007

On 01/07/07, Søren Kiersted <wisewisard at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
> > One should always vote *for* a candidate, never against, imho.
> >
> > Alison Wheeler
> > (writing purely personally)
>
> The people who write the rules do not agree with your personal view.
>
> "Approval voting" is just a polite word for "disapproval voting". When
> you do not select someone you are disapproving them and the ones with
> the least disapproval win.  It is exactly equal only the name changes.

Alison is talking about how one makes their choice of who to vote for,
she isn't talking about how the voting system works. Approval voting
is just a yes/no vote on each candidate and the one(s) with the most
yes's (or least no's, it is, indeed, the same thing) wins. If you
really hate one candidate, your best bet is to vote for everyone
except that candidate.