Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: new proposal: ptime

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:41 PM 2002-02-03 -0500, you wrote:
> Quoth Donald Whytock,
>
> >
> > The way my proposal is written now, each player casts a single vote for 
> one of
> > the proposals on the ballot.  They don't cast yes-or-no votes on each
> > proposal.  So how can two proposals be tied for the majority?  Easy: three
> > players vote for Bean's refresh proposal, three others vote for 
> Scoff!'s, and
> > any other proposals voted for each get one.
> >
> But then if there's even only one other proposal that got one, neither
> Bean's nor Scoff!'s proposals have a majority, 'cause Bean got 3 votes out
> of 7 votes sent out, and Scoff! got 3 votes out of 7. 3/7 isn't a majority.

Good point, perhaps we should do multiple ballots, where the one with the 
least votes gets dropped, then we vote again on the remainder?  Takes 
longer, but gets better representation...

Bean