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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Voting, single transferrable vote, etc
Message-ID: <14405.25349dd3@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 89 19:21:07 GMT
References: <8910081919.AA15665@helios.enea.se> <3315@watale.waterloo.edu> <2673@cpoint.UUCP>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2673@cpoint.UUCP>, alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
> When a call for votes is proposed, include ALL proposed names.  Each person
> voting votes yes/no on EACH name.  A voter simply votes YES on all the names
> he would find acceptable, and NO on all the names he does not.

Hmmm. This sounds much like the proposal I made in a previous article
<14035.2530882d@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>.  I would suggest a slight modification.
Rather than listing the possibilities in the call for votes, just let everyone
write in their choices, with wild cards allowed.  Then I could send in a vote
like:

sci.* NO
rec.pets.* NO
rec.aquaria YES

This would allow everyone to expess opinions about both the group creation and
the name in one vote.  A vote like "* YES" would mean that the voter would
like the group created, reguardless of the name.  "Sci.* NO, rec.* YES" would
me that the voter is against any group in the sci heirarchy, but for any group
in rec.

I think this system of voting would allow us to select a name at the same time
we are deciding if the group should be created.  If no name passes the
criteria (whatever they are), then the group wouldn't be created.  If several
names pass, then we would need to develop criteria for selecting among the
alternatives.  We might use fewest NO votes, or greatest percent of YES votes,
or just about anything else.
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