[IAEP] Sugar Labs Elections at SPI

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 16:43:57 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Luke Faraone<lfaraone at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:19, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Last year we used http://selectricity.org/ , largely without incident.  Do
>> you have a reason to do otherwise this year?
>
> This reason:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 17:51, Walter
> Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> there was some concern that Selectricity had some flaws and security holes
>
>
> Also having a 3rd party allows for greater accountability and transparency.
>>
>> Also, the Schulze method can only be used to elect a single winner.  It
>>
>> does not describe any mechanism for multi-winner elections such as this
>> one.

on the contrary, it works very well for multi-winner elections.

-walter
>
> Ok, then.  What would you recommend?
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