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IP: Re: A web site of Brian Reids ICANN election experience
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:12:13 -0400
X-Sender: mom () mail netmom com Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:59:35 -0400 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Jean Armour Polly <mom () netmom com> Subject: Re: IP: A web site of Brian Reids ICANN election experience Dave- I found this AFTER I voted. I do think the user interface should be changed so that it says you can rank as few or as many candidates as you wish. JP http://members.icann.org/faq.htm#AVP "I'm not familiar with Alternative Vote procedures. How will the At Large vote be tallied? See the Rules : 1. ICANN will use the Alternative (also known as "Preferential" or "Single-Transferable") Voting System to conduct this election. Members will rank the candidates in order of preference ("1" for their first choice, "2" for their second, etc.). Members may rank as many or as few candidates as they choose. The votes will be tallied according to the first preferences (the "1"s). If at that point one candidate has an absolute majority (50% + 1) of the vote, he/she is selected. If not, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The eliminated candidate's votes are redistributed to the next ranked candidates (the "2"s). The votes are counted again to determine whether any candidate has an absolute majority. If not, the elimination process is repeated until one candidate gains a majority. 2. In the event of a tie, the candidate with the greatest number of first preferences (the "1"s) will be selected. In the event of a tie in the number of first preferences, the candidate with the greatest number of second preferences (the "2"s) will be selected, and so forth through the sequential same number of votes at each preference, the selection will be decided by a coin toss supervised by the Election Monitoring and Oversight Panel. Some useful (and entertaining) background resources on the Alternative Vote process (sometimes called "Instant Runoff Voting") have been published by the Center for Voting and Democracy: -- Chart of voting tabulation process: http://www.fairvote.org/irv/flow.pdf -- Demo: "The Muppets Use Instant Runoff Voting" http://www.fairvote.org/irv/muppets/index.html "
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