How Voting Works, in English<\/h4>\n
This is how voting works in MathSpeak.<\/a> If this stuff turns you on, you may like this.<\/a><\/p>\n AMS Executive positions<\/span>: The Condorcet method<\/a> is a fancy way of saying that you get to rank the candidates in order for how much you love them, with the winner being the general winner, i.e. the person most people want to sleep with (politics is sexy, people).\u00a0The idea behind this is to avoid vote splitting. The Condorcet Smart Way of Voting pairs up each candidate head to head and whoever is most preferred over the other wins.<\/p>\n Let’s rank a pretend ballot (1. Unicorns 2. Rainbows 3. Puppies). Unicorns, Rainbows, and Puppies then go head to head in pairs, in which the winner is fuschia. (Unicorns<\/span> vs Rainbows), (Unicorns<\/span> vs Puppies),\u00a0(Rainbows <\/span>vs Puppies).\u00a0\u00a0It is then obvious that the Unicorns prevail. Obviously, people rank in different orders and it gets a little more complicated, but just rank honestly. Strategic voting with the Condorcet Smart Way of Voting gets messy and is risky business (wrap it up, kids).<\/p>\n Senate, Board of Governors, Ubyssey, and SLFS:<\/span> These are simple First Past the Post ballots. You get to pick 5 awesome people for Senate, 2 awesome people for BoG, 5 awesome people for Ubyssey, and 6 awesome peple for SLFS (in which there is a slate). Whoever gets the most votes wins!<\/p>\n Voter Funded Media: <\/span> For the One Time VFM (which is the one seen on your sexy online ballot) they use One Time Interpolated Consensus. (For the crazy owmyheadhurts deal, go here<\/a>. There’s even a spreadsheet you can download!!1!) It’s so complicated that we finally understand it, but don’t want to confuse you. So, here’s another flowchart to make your decision really easy.<\/p>\n
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