[EM] Request for help: complex election

[Eric Gorr]

At 5:24 PM +0000 3/9/04, Nikhil Nair wrote:
>While this is certainly interesting, and may well be a better system than
>typically used in common political elections, I don't think this is the
>solution I'm looking for.

This is mostly just a random idea fraught with many problems that I 
am sure people will point out, but why not run a modified version of 
an Approval election and take the top vote getters.

Since you wanted the board votes to count more (you mentioned 60-40)

for each candidate, take the total number of votes cast by the board 
and multiply it by .6. Also, for each candidate, take the total 
number of votes cast by non-board members and multiply it by .4.

Add these two totals together for the final total for each candidate.

Just a random idea...


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