[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

Fri Jun 6 18:29:21 UTC 2008

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I voted in Palm Beach County and I think I voted for Pat Robertson when
I tried to vote for Dan Rosenthal.

Cary

Delphine Ménard wrote:
| Hello.
|
| Well, I tried, I really did. I read the wikipedia entries. In English
| *and* in French. But I still don't understand the Schulze method. I
| mean, I kind of understand that it's good (TM) and that it probably
| will end up choosing the best person for the position. But I don't
| understand the implications of what I vote and how I vote for some
| things.
|
| I am hoping that someone can make this clearer to me.
|
| So here are my questions:
|
| The explanation says (and I quote): "You may give the same preference
| to more than one candidate and may keep candidates unranked. It is
| presumed that you prefer all ranked candidates to all not ranked
| candidates and that you are indifferent between all not ranked
| candidates."
|
| #Question 1
| Does "you may give the same preference to more than one candidate"
| mean that I can rank three candidates with rank 1, three with rank 2 ,
| one with rank 3 and five with rank 4 (and so forth)?
|
| #Question 2
| Can I actually rank one candidate with rank 1, three candidates with
| rank 2 and 5 candidates with rank 15? That is, does the rank  (1, 2, 3
| etc.) actually matter in the overall results, or is rank always
| relative? (ie. If I rank 2 people with rank 1 and 10 with rank 15, the
| 10 will be counted as being my second choice, not as being "of rank
| 15")
|
| #Question 3
| What's the best way to go about making sure that a candidate is ranked
| as low as possible? Rank them at the lowest possible rank (this will
| of course depend on answers to question 2)? Or not rank them at all?
|
| I am not sure that my questions are clear. I hope so :-)
|
| Thank you for your help.
|
| Delphine
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