IP: Re: A web site of Brian Reids ICANN election experience

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> 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 "