Hi, Am Montag, dem 22.01.2024 um 20:47 +0000 schrieb Adam Gundry:
(Joachim, if you have any particular pointers for how to do this, e.g. regarding the specific voting mechanism you've used in previous rounds, that would be welcome.)
because we do this thing where we have a slightly varying committee size and am happy to take on more good candidates than absolutely necessary, I did an overly complicated ranked voting system. The email I sent during the last regular round, with three candidates, had this section: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ## Voting procedure We have currently 7 non-expiring members, and our bylaws say we should have a committee of “roughly 10”, so we can take on all candidates. We should take on at least two, if possible, else we’d be compelled to do another round of nominations (the bylaws say that less than 9 members trigger a call for nomination). To express our options, we’ll use the following ranked voting. In an email to me (or all of us, if you want, but _not_ the mailing list), order the following lines according your order of preference, starting with your most preferred statement: AAA joins the committee BBB joins the committee CCC joins the committee Committee has 9 members, two new Committee has 8 members, one new Committee has 7 members, no new Please vote within one week, until Friday, Feb 19th (or at least briefly ask for an extension). ## Example For example (using made up names), if you think that all candidates are good enough to get us up to 9 members, but you’d rather not grow the committee further except with Donald Duck, then you could write Donald Duck Committee has 9 members, two new Mickey Mouse Peter Pan Committee has 8 members, one new Committee has 7 members, no new If you want to vote against a certain candidate, put their name _after_ “Committee has 7 members, no new”. (Yes, maybe a tad complicated, and it would make more sense if we had more candidates. But I hope you’ll entertain my electorial whims :-) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But it may just suffice to go for plain approval voting, where every member says yay or nay, and those approved by a majority are in - up to you. Cheers, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/