[EM] Poll question and voting period

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Thu Apr 18 14:48:24 PDT 2024


Alright, now that I've got a little bit more time, here's the post that 
I was intending to write.

In the original EM post, Michael Ossipoff suggested there be a week-long 
nomination period and then a month-long voting period. Since nobody 
proposed otherwise, that's what we went with.

Since the voting period started at 2024-04-11 05:15:00 UTC that means 
that the voting deadline is

2024-05-11 05:15:00 UTC, inclusive.

As for the question, MO said this:

> This poll is intended to be about merit-in-use. ...disregarding
> winnability & proposability.  ...but taking into account
> strategy-problems,, expense of implementation, expense & difficulty of
> administration, complexity & consequent insecurity of count, &
> consequent count-fraud vulnerability.   So, it's about merit-in-use, in
> all its aspects.

So, as I understand it, the question would be:

"What methods do you consider to have the greatest merit in use for 
public elections?

For the ranked ballot, rank the methods in order of merit.

Every aspect relevant to the methods' suitability for public use is 
relevant: including vulnerability to strategy, expense of implementation 
and administration, count complexity, and vulnerability to fraud.

However, the answer should not take into account whether the method is 
currently being proposed by an advocacy group, nor how much momentum a 
particular group or reform movement, if it exists, enjoys at the moment."

MO: Does that sound about right?

(I didn't add a description of how to do Approval because lots of 
different approaches and heuristics exist.)

-km


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