Hiro, colleagues: I agree that the selection algothirm is unclear. From looking at the list of anonymised votes, I am pretty sure the outcome of this election would have been the same under FPTP or AV. So I'm extremely happy with the decision of this election, in any case. However, I'm concerned that the selection algorithm does not seem to correspond with a recognised voting system, unless I'm very confused (which is entirely possible). And my particular worry is that in future elections, the result might not correspond to the "aggregate will of Council" - in other words, it might produce an election winner who did not command the largest number of first preference votes (in this case it did). I did once study comparative electoral systems around the world, but it's over 20 years ago, so I might be missing something here, so I'd really appreciate help as to the background of this particular twist on preferential voting. (As Patricio and maybe others will recall I was instrumental in the decision of the original ccTLD constituency to use STV in multi-member elections, which was dropped when ICANN V2.0 was rebooted) So could we (perhaps through the GRC please revisit the Council decision (whenever it was) to adopt this particular electoral device? In fact, perhaps it's time for a review in any event? On 01/08/17 07:50, HiroHOTTA wrote:
Dear Joke,
I have questions about the selection algorithm.