> The proposal posted by Robert Shearing (see the gtld-mou RFC archives)
> suggested giving each PAB member one vote for each slot. Hence, everyone
> would vote on every representative. This results in exactly the problem of
> "incompetent" votes, with people voting for constituencies about which they
> are not familiar.
>
> A refinement which was later suggested (I think I heard it privately so
> it probably is not on a mailing list archive) was to reduce the number
> of votes each member may cast, perhaps giving every PAB member a vote
> for
> one-half of the number of candidates.
>
> This means that those voting must decide which categories (constituencies)
> they consider to be most important to their organization. I believe this
> refinement is an extremely clever way to obtain a high degree of
> "competent" voting without requiring an procedural complexity. I believe
> it also will tend to cause those voting to think a bit more carefully about
> their choices.
Dear Dave
I kind of like this idea!
Best regards.
>
> I encourage consideration of this alternative for the voting mechanism.
>
> d/
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