For the purpose of determining both The Oracle and The Legacy Test, we will be using a Range Voting system. It is felt that this will more accurately capture the "will of the people". First, a definition (lifted from Wikipedia):
Range voting uses a ratings ballot; that is, each voter rates each candidate with a number within a specified range, such as 0 to 99 or 1 to 5. Although in cumulative voting voters are not permitted to provide scores for more than some number of candidates, in range voting all candidates can be and should be rated . Voters are explicitly allowed to abstain from rating certain candidates, as opposed to implicitly giving the lowest number of points to unrated candidates, then a candidate's score would be the average rating from voters who did rate this candidate.
How it Will Work
- For Each vote (Oracle and Test) the people working on the monument will assign a value to the choices. How they come to those values is up to them.
- They will then chat those choices to the designated collector for that vote. Who this is has yet to be determined.
- They will be given a secret voter number. If the collector for the different votes are two different people, the collector will begin each one with a prefix like "O" and "T" to distinguish the two sequences
- The votes will be tallied, processed, and the results posted
- In addition to the overall result, the individual votes will be published by the "voter number" so people can make sure their vote was accurately recorded.
- We have pie
The Nitty Details
- What is the Range?
- We will use 0 through 9 inclusive
- Can I not vote for a person / thing?
- Yes, you don't have to vote for everything. However, you are strongly encouraged to give a vote for everything thing/one you have an opinion about. "No Opinion" is not the same thing as a vote of any specific value
- What is the result on a person/thing if I don't give a range?
- The short answer is "nothing", it has no positive or negative effect. The score is the average of the values given, so if there is no value then there is nothing to be added in and averaged. To be perfectly clear "No Opinion" IS NOT THE SAME as any specific value, such as 0 or 50.
- Does it matter how many votes some thing/one gets? I mean it doesn't seem quite right for a person to win with one vote
- It does matter to a point. While it is not a requirement of range voting itself, under our system any thing/person that receives less than 50% of the total votes of the highest vote getter will not be counted. For example, if ten people express an opinion about Mary for Oracle, Fred will need to have at least five people express an opinion of him for him to be considered, regardless of his average. The principle behind this is that it shouldn't be possible to for some thing/one that most people have no opinion on. This is also why you are encouraged to express a rating for all choices.