Instant Runoff vs Majority vs Convention Style - all of it works. Karl explains very correctly that the main difficulty is to understand actual canvassing (counting). The complete records of all past DNSO votes are still on line here, exactly as I organized it when running DNSO Secretariat, http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/gavotesummary.html You may observe Instant Runoff canvassing (how algorith goes step by step) in all elections for Chair and Vice-Chair, i.e. b04 or b11. Usually it helps a lot. I am from France, the only voting methods here are Majority or Majority-by-lists, I used to several different methods outside of France. My one-sentence-opinion-on-all is: Majority seems easy, but is not convergent; Majority-by-list is deals-before-election; Convention Style is exhausting; I have confidence in Instant Runoff. Kind regards, Elisabeth Porteneuve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@cavebear.com> To: <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [At-Large] Voting for At-Large Director [...]
Voting a list of preferences, whether counted using STV/IRV, Condorcet, or something else, does work and such systems have been used in both public and private elections. Usually after some initial surprise how to cast votes such systems become comprehensible to voters (how the actual canvasing [counting] occurs may not be so obvious.)