[Foundation-l] The average voter and voting systems (was Re: Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election)

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 08:21:27 UTC 2007


On 13/07/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

> STV works very nicely here in Australia, and it would be a good system
> to use, IMHO.


Ever scrutineered at an election? I have. It was about 50% donkey,
near-donkey or reverse-donkey votes.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_vote - numbering the boxes
sequentially from top to bottom. I suppose there's the random shuffle
option.)


- d.



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