Due to the uproar caused by the voting system used in the last election, a new system needs to be selected for next year. To this end, I'm committing a new task for the November Sprint to define the new system.

As I don't much care about voting theory myself, I'm asking those people who do so obviously care to move beyond the loud-complaining stage to the constructive-change stag and outline a better voting system on the wiki.

I'll stipulate 3 things first, though:

• Yes, we know plurality methods suck, get over it and define something that doesn't suck. We're after a concrete voting system, so no proselytizing about your favorite system, or ranting about the evils of plurality methods.
• Keep the theory reasonable, and try to keep the content appropriate for people with no background in voting theory. Yes, we're all very impressed by howe much you know, but none of that needs to be paraded around to define a new system.
• This has nothing to do with voter nor candidate eligibility, this is only about the voting system to be used by eligible voters to elect eligible candidates. We'll deal with that more contentious issue somewhere else.

With that in mind, let's see what sort of awesome system you can come up with!

The deadline is November 30th, 2008.

Thanks!