SR - Naming of the Southern Region

[tmcd at jump.net]

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, maddie teller-kook <meadhbh at io.com> wrote:
> So, IMHO, I think the top 5 names should be checked with the heralds
> office and then allow the membership an opportunity to vote on the
> top 5 choices.

I advocated a preference ballot in the hopes of doing it all in one
ballot.  As I wrote in my Lion's Tale article:

* Advantage 1: No runoffs. Normal voting doesn't work well if nobody
  gets a majority on the first round. Usually in the US, the top two
  or three vote-getters have a run-off election, and the one who gets
  the most votes in the runoff wins. This means having to go to the
  effort of running another election.

  In preference voting, there's only one balloting. The preferences
  handle the runoffs so you don't have to vote again.

This would be a better argument if any name candidate had gotten more
than 50% of the ballots.  I assumed that most people would vote for
most candidates.

Daniel de Lincolia
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