[Elections-committee] Condorcet Explanation - Next Draft

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Wed Oct 16 14:13:11 UTC 2013


Tristan Goode wrote:
> Some questions....
> 
> "The OpenStack Board of Directors wishes to consider a resolution to call a
> special meeting of
> members to amend the bylaws of the OpenStack Foundation to remove the
> “cumulative voting”
> defined process for election of the 8 individual member Directors, and
> provide for an “order of
> preference” voting system using either the Condorcet method or the Single
> Transferable Vote
> (STV) method of voting."
> 
> I may have missed this decision in earlier meetings but are we not going to
> ask the electorate if they want to change the voting system?

I think that's what a "special meeting of members" ends up being... a vote ?

> Will the ballot papers be generated in random order to avoid donkey vote
> issues?

It's implementation-specific. For example by default CIVS randomizes the
ballot to avoid those.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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