On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:29:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I see we are still using Condorcet for the board elections. > > As has been discussed here many times previously, Condorcet is a bad > system for multi-seat elections. Rather than electing a board whose > composition reflects, proportionately, the views of the electorate, > the majoritarian or consensus candidates (as applicable) will sweep > the board. > > I have previously proposed that we should drop Condorcet in favour of > the Single Transferrable Vote. > > Last time we had this conversation we got bogged down in a pile of > voting system wonkery.
Part of the problem is that this discussion only ever comes up during an actual election process, when there is no possibility of a change being made. I don't have any objections to a change to STV; it might be interesting to run previous votes through it to see how the outcome might have differed. I don't have spare tuits at present[0] but if anyone wants to provide some Python to implement an STVVS to match CondorcetVS I can look at running. J. [0] Currently on backorder, expected in September. -- She's the one for me. She's all I really need, oh yeah. _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
