[EM] The successful repeal of Approval by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees

[Gervase Lam]

I was looking through the Approval Voting article and noticed that it
mentioned that in 2009 the Dartmouth Board of Trustees had Approval
successfully repealed.

It quotes an article in the web saying: "When the alumni electorate
fails to take advantage of the approval voting process, the three
required Alumni Council candidates tend to split the majority vote,
giving petition candidates an advantage."

There is a link to the article.

<http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/03/opinion/verbum/>

Can anybody give any further background on this?  The details in the
article look a bit sparse.

I think that the reason for the Approval failure was due to the "three
required Alumni Council candidates".  But I don't really know.

Can somebody comment in further detail on why Approval was unsuccessful
in this case?

Thanks,
Gervase.