[svlug] Plurality voting via " STV "

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bruce Coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):

> " STV " is a misidentification of Instant Runoff Voting ; A method
> notorious for various defects caused by ignoring the presence of
> stronger majorities whenever the first choices contain any majority .
> Please find an algorithm  [...]

And yet, given the nature of all SVLUG officer races to date (including
the sole contested one), and of all likely ones in the future, any
algorithm more precise than flipping a coin would have arrived at
the exact same results.

Far be it from me to tell them their hobbies are a waste of time, but 
I'm sure glad it's not _my_ time that'd get eaten up, for this one.

P.S.:  Admittedly, the guy who maintains the Linux User Group HOWTO is
an idiot (just ask Dan Bernstein), but he says:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4