[19515] in APO-L
Re: Voting Delegates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Tue Oct 27 14:33:15 1998
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:25:34 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <36359BDC.7096A626@student.anu.edu.au>
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, David Ham wrote:
> jennifer ann o'leary wrote:
> > Alpha Alpha elects both delegates from the active body. nominations are
> > held at one meeting and at the next the people that are nominated give
> > speeches then everyone votes - it's fairly simple
> Just as a matter of interest how do APO groups elect people for such
> functions. Do you operate by first past the post, optional or compulsory
> preferential, multiple vote or some other system? Do you use PR in
> elections for multiple positions (like the one above) and if so which
> form, D'Hont, Hare-Clark or another?
Most of these questions are moot when your elections for multiple
positions are not party based. (PR for example)
Other than for example not wanting to elect a boyfriend/girlfriend
combination to president and Treasurer for security on the money, I
haven't seen many cases when the election to one position effected others.
What I've seen at most chapters is the following: For single person
positions (president, secretary, etc.) a majority is needed. This is done
by multiple balots dropping the person or persons with the fewest votes
off at the end of each round. For two person positions like
delegates they either go with one or two votes per person and the two
highest vote getters get the positions regardless of whether they have a
majority.
I'll accept arguments that dropping the lowest vote getter and running
another round has its problems but when you've got two or three brothers
out in the hall trying to figure out who gets elected having them figure
out the election by one of the other method gets very messy.
>
> I suspect this is probably not an issue for most chapters - paranoia
> about voting systems seem to be an Australian perculiarity (this is,
> after all, the country that invented the secret ballot, preferential
> voting and compulsory voting for federal and state elections).
So how do they do it in Rovers? :)
>
> I guess this illustrates that, here at least, there are undergrads
> (quite a few actually) who are interested in the rules and procedures by
> which student organisations work. Admittedly most of those interested
> are law students and law is not an undergrad degree in the US.
Yes, but you do have a good number of Political science majors who are
Pre-law.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
>
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> David Ham
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> Australia
>
> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
> - Albert Einstein
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