<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/27 Gervase Lam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gervase.lam@group.force9.co.uk" target="_blank">gervase.lam@group.force9.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was looking through the Approval Voting article and noticed that it<br>
mentioned that in 2009 the Dartmouth Board of Trustees had Approval<br>
successfully repealed.<br>
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It quotes an article in the web saying: "When the alumni electorate<br>
fails to take advantage of the approval voting process, the three<br>
required Alumni Council candidates tend to split the majority vote,<br>
giving petition candidates an advantage."<br>
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There is a link to the article.<br>
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<<a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/03/opinion/verbum/" target="_blank">http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/03/opinion/verbum/</a>><br>
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Can anybody give any further background on this? The details in the<br>
article look a bit sparse.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not an insider on this. But from what I saw, basically the repeal was because the insiders didn't like the results. I don't think they had a strong argument that the results were undemocratic, they just wanted to go back to a system that they knew better how to manipulate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(This is not based on extensive research, just reading about 3-4 articles on this and reading between the lines. So I could be wrong. Also it's been a few years since I really looked at this.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jameson</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I think that the reason for the Approval failure was due to the "three<br>
required Alumni Council candidates". But I don't really know.<br>
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Can somebody comment in further detail on why Approval was unsuccessful<br>
in this case?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Gervase.<br>
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