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01098: WDDM Board Elections

From: <WDDM webmaster>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 22:03:22 -0700
Subject: WDDM Board Elections

Hi all!
Sorry for the further delay. It seemed simple to add range-voting method to
our secret ballot system, it's was simple in principle, but it took me several
days to make it working perfectly.
Range voting is promoted here: http://rangevoting.org/ . It's supposed to be
the best method available (for the representative democracy anyway, it's
promoters above claim that switching from plurality voting to range voting in
ordinary elections would be an improvement of the same magnitude as going in
the past from from the absolute monarchy to plurality RD).

So I thought that some promotion of this method at WDDM might also be useful.
It may be an overkill for the WDDM Board election, but I had in mind future
application for continuous tallying the views of our group on various issues in
the course of the deliberations on them. One can add additional candidates
(choices, answers to a question) during the course of deliberation, others can
rate them on a fine scale from 0 to 99, so this would give an idea all the time
what is most important to the group, and discussion could continue in those
directions. ...

You can play with range voting in the new 'Demo Range Voting Elections'
at http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/vote/ (third selection).

Range voting is supposed to do away with any strategic voting. One can rate
all the candidates exactly as one really feels about them without the fear that
it will help winning a candidate whom one really dislikes - no need to choose
between the less evils.

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Back to WDDM BOARD ELECTIONS:

You'll find it again at: http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/vote/ (top
selection). Initially, four candidates announced earlier are listed there.
Any voter can add additional candidates. Voting is done by rating all or some
of the candidates on the scale from 0 (no approval, practically a vote against)
to 99 (highest approval). One can have no opinion on some candidates - that
will not effect their final score. Unlike voting 0 which decreases it.

We decided that this will be a hybrid vote, so whoever does not like to vote
online, can still send in their votes by e-mail to this address again, rating
each candidate the same way as above (0 to 99, or No opinion). Additional
candidates can be also nominated and rated. These e-mail-in ballots will be
added to the online results only after the closing date, except perhaps for the
names of possible additional e-mailed candidates which can be added into the
online system as they arrive so that online voters can also vote on them. I'll
also send out the names of additional nominees from the online system to the
mail-in voters before the closing of the ballot.

I put the closing date for this Elections 10 days from now, on May 16, 2007,
23:00 Eastern Time. If you think that that is not enough time, let me know.

Happy voting,
Mirek






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