Alice Katsuko
Terra Incognita
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Posted - 2013.02.21 18:23:00 -
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Ripard Teg wrote:Errr... OK. Granted I've only read this once and it's pretty early in the morning, but let me make sure I understand this.
I have to ask a broad swath of EVE players to vote for me...
...and then ten or so days later, I have to ask them to do it a second time using a different system?
...and this is your plan to make the CSM more open to non-bloc candidates?
My inner Garth is screaming that this is truly an election system designed by CCP...
EDIT: And let me be clear: I have no objection to the STV. But isn't the whole point to the STV to eliminate the need for primary elections?
You have to ask 200 people to vote for you in the pre-election process, which is neither a difficult task, not an unreasonable one. In the CSM 7 election, the top-ranking candidate received over 10,000 votes; getting 2% of that should not be difficult at all for any candidate who has any hope at all of winning in a general election, and probably less difficult than getting 200 likes for a hidden post on a section of the forums most neither know exists nor care about. If anything, the CCP-backed candidate pool selection round will make it easier for serious candidates to get on the ballot, since it will presumably be more widely advertised in-game than the old 'likes' system.
The point of the STV is to avoid 'wasting' votes and to generate an elected assembly that is more representative of the preferences of the electorate. It does not do away with the need to generate a viable, finite pool of candidates. Every working large-scale electoral system in the world has a filtering mechanism to prevent hopeless or non-serious candidates from clogging up the ballot. The alternative is to allow anyone with access to a computer and $15 in cash to be on the ballot, which would risk having serious candidates like yourself being lost in a mass of unknown names.
I will point out that the STV can be gamed via exit polling just as easily as a plurality system, especially in future rounds when the formula for generating votes from the ballot rank order becomes known. |