SRA General Election Results
03-17-2011 at 02:09 PM
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Cogito, ergo sum
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Congratulations J-Met on making the SRA again, and to huzaifa as well! I'm glad there is still some senior members on the SRA still.
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03-17-2011 at 02:38 PM
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Elite Member
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I love you Jean-Marc! 
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03-17-2011 at 03:19 PM
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Fitzgerald groupie
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Congrats Jean-Marc!
Well deserved. Cheers 
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03-17-2011 at 03:25 PM
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Damn, Ojo lost by two votes.
I don't understand this voting system; how does ranking your votes translate into # of votes for a person?
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03-17-2011 at 07:43 PM
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The voting actually isn't preferential. Every vote you cast counts equally. If you put numbers on your ballot for preferences, they just take them all as one vote per candidate you marked down. To me, it seems like kind of an unfair system.
Say you have person A and person B. You want to vote for them both, but you prefer A over B. Now if you vote for both, your ballot could bump person B into an elected rank, meaning person A is not elected, even though you preferred A to B. If it was a preferential ballot, your vote would be assigned to A, and only when A is determined either elected or not elected would your vote go to B.
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03-18-2011 at 12:26 AM
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Real name: J
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Btw, Simon Granat was elected today as the 6th member of the Social Science caucus. Congratulations to him as well!
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03-18-2011 at 12:44 AM
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Real name: Bernardo
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Congrats J-Met!
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03-18-2011 at 02:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by J-Met
The voting actually isn't preferential. Every vote you cast counts equally. If you put numbers on your ballot for preferences, they just take them all as one vote per candidate you marked down. To me, it seems like kind of an unfair system.
Say you have person A and person B. You want to vote for them both, but you prefer A over B. Now if you vote for both, your ballot could bump person B into an elected rank, meaning person A is not elected, even though you preferred A to B. If it was a preferential ballot, your vote would be assigned to A, and only when A is determined either elected or not elected would your vote go to B.
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WHAT THE F*CK! I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THIS.
F*CKING SCHOOL VOTING...ARGH
(the right people got elected, but I'm ticked at this unclearness) |
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03-18-2011 at 05:59 PM
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Elite Member
Real name: Andrew
Program: Nursing
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Really excited to be working with some of these people. Hope you guys had fun with elections <3
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03-18-2011 at 11:54 PM
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Elite Member
Real name: Alasdair
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I asked about changing from FPTP for SRA elections to STV and was met with a reply about how it would encourage fringe candidates. Considering we have AV in Presidentials I don't see why its a problem. Maybe a change would be more amenable this year.
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