Board of directors membership election

[Bdale Garbee]

wichert at wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman) writes:

> Previously Sven Luther wrote:
>> So a choice of A, B, C and D being the default option, a vote of A only,
>> could be interpreted as ADBC, and a vote of CB as CBDA.
>
> A vote of A could be ABCD, ABDC, ACDB, ACBD, ADBC or ADCD. All could
> lead to a different result.

If D is none of the above, then treating A as AD is probably the simplest
solution to avoid discarding votes cast without assuming more than the vote
cast implies?

My concern is that throwing a vote of A away is "unfriendly" even if it is
"correct" in some sense.

Bdale