<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Russell Stuart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au" target="_blank">russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:21 +1100, John Ferlito wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:28:12PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:<br>
> > The right solution to me would be to go with the original plan: run a<br>
> > second election with only those top three. Like Chris I am a bit<br>
> > mystified as to why that isn't happening.<br>
><br>
> Because we announced that we would only follow the rest of the process<br>
> if "No name change" didn't win.<br>
<br>
</div>Fair enough.<br></blockquote><div><br>Maybe.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
In retrospect if the wording was "didn't get an outright majority" I<br>
would be happier. "Winning" with a top 3 optional preferential voting<br>
is a fuzzy concept, particularly when like this case no one got a<br>
majority. Maybe that's something we can do if we have another vote like<br>
this.<br></blockquote><div><br>IMO the problem with the process was that two questions were mingled up:<br>1. should we retain the name? and<br>2. which three names do we want to vote on if we want a new name?<br><br>Because of this, the existing LA name turned into one of the options of a "new name" rather than being a filter of whether to go for voting.<br>
<br>I can't believe this would have been intended by the council.<br><br>In the interest of fairness, I would therefore suggest to go forward with the second round of voting on a "new name" in which the top three (or maybe four) names) are set as choice, which includes "LA". This will then give a much fairer statement of whether the community actually does want to keep the old name.<br>
<br>Otherwise we will always have the question hanging around about "what if the voting process had been different...".<br><br>Regards,<br>Silvia.<br></div></div>