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

Fri Jun 6 20:43:01 UTC 2008

I've spent the entire day driving minorities to polling stations!

On 06/06/2008, Cary Bass <cbass at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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.
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> Cary
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> 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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