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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A proposal for a new voting scheme
Message-ID: <18058@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 15:29:58 GMT
References: <6931@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov12.162221.10189@NCoast.ORG> <6950@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <6950@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In this case they would have voted for *both* groups.
> 
> Combining all the votes for all the groups would then count these folks
> *twice*. Can you say "let's stuff the ballot box by putting lots of names
> in?". Sure you can.

You don't need to add up the YES votes for all the groups. Any single PERSON
who votes YES for any of the names could be counted as ONE vote in favor of
the group charter or topic.  The vote taker could report the total number of
ballots received, and the number of ballots that contained at least one YES
vote. These numbers would reflect the popularity of the charter, as opposed to
the name.
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