Precedent is not sufficient. It is also important where they were incorporated. There is also precedent that an organization dropped STV on the advice of counsel because of their point of incorporation. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 11, 2013, at 12:43 PM, "Monty Taylor" <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote: > > > On 10/11/2013 01:27 PM, Monty Taylor wrote: > > > > > > On 10/11/2013 01:24 PM, James E. Blair wrote: > >> Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> writes: > >> > >>> Hey all! > >>> > >>> If you want to learn more about this from wikipedia, you should check out: > >>> > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_systems#Compliance_of_selected_systems_.28table.29 > >>> > >>> The TC/PTL elections use Schulze. STV would be IRV in this table. > >> > >> Browsing the lists of election system users on wikipedia, a couple of US > >> tax-exempt orgs stand out: > >> > >> LOPSA: A 501(c)(3) using Meek's STV > >> http://governance.lopsa.org/LOPSA_Bylaws#Election_of_Directors > >> > >> SPI: A 501(c)(3) using Schulze > >> http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2003/2003-01-06.wta.1/ > >> > >> It seems unlikely that we would be breaking new ground as a non-profit > >> with either of these. > > > > I believe this is an excellent point and excellent precedent. > > Considering that Delaware law allows us to explicitly define our voting > > mechanism (which makes the Delaware portion itself moot) - I would think > > that existing precedent of non-profit boards using Schultze should give > > us the ground cover we need to be more confident on both stated concerns > > around use of Schultze. > > > > That that has been in effect for them since 2003 and should be AMPLE > > time for issues to have arisen. > > As a followup, I have found that the XBMC Foundation, which is an Open > Source 501c3 registered in the state of Delaware uses Condorcet for > their elections. > > IANAL - but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that perhaps there > actually is precedent for us to use the voting mechanism that we want to > use. > > Monty > > _______________________________________________ > Elections-committee mailing list > Elections-committee at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/elections-committee > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/elections-committee/attachments/20131011/e9c3b9d7/attachment.html>