[Noisebridge-discuss] voting: approval vs condorcet

[Andy Isaacson]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:26:43AM -0800, Shannon Lee wrote:
> It seems to me that Evilla and her supporters are likely to be quite pissed
> that she got 60% of the vote and lost.

Well, I should have shown the approval ballot:

1 - 1
1 - 1
1 - 1
1 - 1
- - 1
- 1 1
1 - -
1 1 -
1 1 -
1 1 -

which is to say, 80% of the group approves of A, 40% approves of B, and
60% approves of E.

Personally, in the context of a Noisebridge style consensus, I think I'd
be uncomfortable, as a partisan of E, to see the Condorcet winner take
it in this case.  (Of course I only know it's a problem here because are
assuming we have have both datasets, the condorcet votes and the
approval votes.)

> It does seem like this is a "prevent bad people from getting on the board"
> use case rather than a "pick the best people for the board" use case, which
> is closer to what we want for the board...

Is it?  I'm supposing for this example that there's a significant
fraction of the community who strongly feel that E is a bad choice.  I'm
not sure we want to be majoritarian in that case.

-andy