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

Fri Jul 13 23:41:09 UTC 2007

> >I don't know if STV is that hard to explain anyway, at least, if you
> >give a simplified explanation: first you number all the candidates in
> >order of preference (1 being your first preference). If your #1
> >preference doesn't win, your vote goes to your #2 preference, and so
> >on.
> >
> It's relatively easy when you are choosing only one winner from a list.
> When you need to elect more some mind-boggling complications can arise.

Complications for whom? The only difficulty is for the people counting
the votes (or in writing an algorithm to do it). STV is much easier
for the actual voters to express their intentions.

Pengo.