Hi all
Thank you very much dear Tapani for your kind explanation and your campaign
message.
I have learned and continue to learn ...
Thank you to all who contribute to it.
Good vote at all!
Warm regards
-Olévié-
2016-09-02 6:17 GMT+01:00 Shahzad Ahmad <[log in to unmask]>:
> Really wish I was voting. And if I had the opportunity to vote, I
> definitely would not have voted for NOTA :)
>
> All the best to all the candidates running the elections.
>
> Best wishes and regards
> Shahzad
>
>
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> Shahzad Ahmad
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>
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <[log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Warning: I'm not writing this as the Chair but as a candidate
> in the election. So this is campaigning, election propaganda:
> I am trying to influence how you vote.
>
> Amd I'm going to use the time-honoured means of badmouthing
> other candidates instead of praising myself.
>
> Specifically, I think one of the choices really sucks,
> namely None of the Above, also known as NOTA.
>
> OK, to be fair, NOTA might make a good Chair, at least he has never
> made any stupid mistakes, which is more than I can say for myself.
> And in the Chair election rules are actually slightly weighed against
> NOTA, as in case of a tie NOTA loses. I still think I'd be at least
> a bit better Chair than NOTA.
>
> But in council NOTA would not only be bad, in the council
> election he's got an unfair advantage in the rules, too.
>
> Suppose you like candidate X, don't care about others but
> are thinking whether or not to vote for NOTA as well.
>
> In any situation where it matters, that is, where X is in any danger
> of losing, voting X+NOTA rather than just X weakens X's chances of
> getting elected.
>
> To see this, consider a situation where all votes but yours
> have been counted and X is just one vote behind NOTA.
> (This is the only situation where your vote matters.)
>
> If you've voted for just X, X will catch up with NOTA and wins.
>
> If you've voted for X+NOTA, X remains one vote behind NOTA and loses.
>
> So if you think your vote matters in getting X elected,
> you should vote for just X, not for X+NOTA.
>
> You should vote for NOTA only if you are sure your favourite
> candidate(s) will get elected anyway and you just want to weaken other
> candidates' chances.
>
> Or, vote for NOTA if you think NOTA is *the* best choice and all others
> would be better off losing.
>
> Do *not* vote NOTA as a symbolic expression of dissatisfaction or
> anything like that. That's not what it's now for. If everybody votes
> for their favourite candidate(s) plus NOTA, the election will fail
> totally, nobody getting elected. That would not be good.
>
> And remember, you can still change your vote even if you've already
> voted: just vote again, only the last one counts.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
>
>
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