SR - Naming of the Southern Region

[gptaylor]

Ballots were given out to everyone at our Bjornsborg populace meeting. There
were probably 40+ people there.  Were they given out at other populace
meetings?  If so, how many people attend the various populace meetings?   Is
balloting in this fashion an acceptible way to do such a thing?  If so, might it
represent less an apathy about naming, than attending a business meeting?

Isobel

maddie teller-kook wrote:

> That is all well in good. So we are basing our decision on 80 ballots?  How
> does that number compare with total membership of the region?  I think
> getting only 80 ballots says a lot about interest in naming the region.
> There isn't much there.....
>
> Meadhbh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-southern at Ansteorra.ORG [mailto:owner-southern at Ansteorra.ORG]On
> Behalf Of tmcd at jump.net
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:20 PM
> To: southern at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: RE: SR - Naming of the Southern Region
>
> 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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