[Tagging] Should the tag proposal process force voters to vote for an option?

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 22:49:21 UTC 2020


On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 09:36, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 23:23, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I wrote about changing from a for/against vote to a pick your preferred
>> option at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aharvey/diary/394419
>>
>> Interested to hear what others think about this.
>>
>
> There are inherent problems when using first-past-the-post voting with
> more than two political candidates, and these have been covered
> extensively.
>

You could do preference voting, ranking your preferred options in order and
using one of the existing voting processes out there of which there are
many.

Regardless of the exact voting process at least it will give you a result,
a way to tag X instead of a no-result which can happen relatively easily at
the moment.
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