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 "