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Speaking for myself: Summary I propose changing our Steering Council election process from simple approval voting to a ranked choice system to better capture voter preferences and provide more meaningful feedback to candidates. I want your input to know if this is worth pursuing. Background Our PEP-13 voting method has remained unchanged since late 2019. While functional, the simple approval voting system has limitations we should address. Current Limitations No Preference Expression: Voter...

I propose changing our Steering Council election process from simple approval voting to a ranked choice system to better capture voter preferences and provide more meaningful feedback to candidates. The places where I think that’s unlikely to be true are the extreme edges (someone who is unambiguously more or less desired than anyone else), and I suspect that any multi winner strategy is going to handle outsize preferences like that alright. Gregory P. Smith: While we used ranked choice voting to select our governance model ( PEP 8001), as far as my limited searching could find, we haven’t discussed it for Steering Council elections.

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