Thread: Defining the Maemo Community Council voting procedure
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2008-11-08 , 15:46
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#17
Originally Posted by lardman View Post
What's wrong with the plain "vote for 5 or fewer candidates" method (5 as that's the number we want, fewer so people don't just fill in the gaps with people they don't know anything about).
It depends what you want to achieve. It certainly keeps the options for the voter simple. However, keep in mind the number of candidates is a variable.

If it is not possible to define 2 (or more) candidates as same rank it might lead to some voting for all the candidates (after the first preferred in a random order) because they'd rather not see some candidates win. That leads to sloppiness. Being able to specifiy explicitly the indifference or negative sentiment regarding candidates is a good thing IMO.
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