Final Strident Atheist election date & rules (2011)

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Okay, screw all this, everything will occur like last year (with the exception of the nomination process). By May 20 we'll have a pre-final round of all nominees and on June 1-June 7 we'll have the final election for the three positions on the Committee of WP Strident Atheists. The final election will include the top 4 candidates.

Final Round:

Votes needed = (votes cast/(3 +1)) +1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Tra ... _the_votes

Last edited by Master_Pedant on 16 May 2011, 12:55 am, edited 6 times in total.

You realize you will need at least 56 entries on the poll to accommodate your planned system with 8 candidates? That's slightly ridiculous. I'm not even sure if the forum software will allow such a monstrous poll.

I agree with Orwell's criticism. A transferable vote is not practical in any meaningful sense for 8 candidates. We need to cut the number in half to have 4 final candidates. That's that. I will not allow the monster you propose to exist and fight it's existence to the death.

Err ... okayish.

You should have an option for each of the n! permutations of candidates.

Then you could run Schulze's method on the results.

And Orwell, technically, if nobody gets enough votes in the first round of STV counting, the person with the least votes is eliminated and their second preferences are redistributed.

Back to business as usual (as in business as in 2010).

Last edited by Master_Pedant on 16 May 2011, 12:46 am, edited 1 time in total.

You do realize that a ranked ballot system with a large number of candidates is going to be somewhat insane, don't you? Especially given that someone has to tally all of this. Keep track of it. And so on and so forth, most of which is easily done with a poll, and easily done by a poll WITHOUT the possibility of human error. And then y'know, you have misspellings, write-ins, and all of this other crap that just makes it insane.

Stop f***ing with us, and keep the whole matter constant rather than making this a political experiment.

Last edited by Awesomelyglorious on 16 May 2011, 12:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ho, it's getting really heated in here. Cool.

When playing with the poll in a thread I didn't post, I managed to add 21 (I stopped due to boredom, I don't know how many options I may actually have been able to add).