Should we consider Ranked Choice voting for SC elections?
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Speaking for myself: Summary I propose changing our Steering Council election process from simple approval voting to a ranked choice system to better capture voter preferences and provide more meaningful feedback to candidates. I want your input to know if this is worth pursuing. Background Our PEP-13 voting method has remained unchanged since late 2019. While functional, the simple approval voting system has limitations we should address. Current Limitations No Preference Expression: Voter...

Original comment:

I don’t know much about voting systems, but I know someone who does. Unfortunately he’s currently banned. Maybe we can wait until his 3-month ban expires and ask him for advice?

Previous discussion

    • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      The Python steering committee bans Tim Peters, a Python core developer, for 3 months. In a unrelated discussion, someone propose a new election system for steering committee. Then the creator of Python commented in the post suggesting why not we ask for an opinion from an expert that he knows, but we need to wait a bit as he’s been banned. OP claims this comment has been removed, but may be it’s been reinstated as it’s still there last time I check.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        The simplest explanation is that an automod action was triggered on the word “banned,” and then a mod manually reinstated it. Until I hear further, that’s what I’m going to assume happened.