Rad Plan Profile Selection Voting Mechanism and Method

This wiki page is to present two topics for further discussion and comments, as a result of the May 11th, 2015, IHE Rad Planning Committee tcon. Also see these meeting minutes.

This voting mechanism will be used 2x per annual cycle, starting with the 2015-2016 cycle. Once to select the short listed profile proposals. Once to select the final (detailed) profile proposals.

IHE Rad Proposed Profile Voting Mechanism (what is the voting process?)
IHE Rad Proposed Profile Voting Method (how do we collect votes?)

IHE Rad Proposed Profile Voting Mechanism

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Typically 2 or 3 profiles are selected per year, so it is not a “straight up, majority rules” voting process.

There are two options listed below proposed to be used for the Profile Selection process.
- Current Voting Mechanism: Simple Condorcet method

- - The simple Condorcet method of ranking proposals (a unique value n for each of n options; highest value to first choice) was selected for use.

- - For example, if there are 6 profile proposals, each voting member casts a vote from A (highest, worth 6 points) to F (lowest, worth 1 point) for each proposal. The two or three highest vote totals win.

- - This has the unfortunate side effect of being able to vote “against” another proposal, sometimes unintentionally. The effect is majorities disenfranchising minorities.

- Proposed Voting Mechanism: modified Borda Count method

- - Method used for multiple “winners”, and intended to allow smaller “interested parties” to place also. No voting against other profiles. Allows reasonably sized minority groups to participate.

- - First select the number of "winners" (e.g., 1, 2, 3 or 4 profiles.) Calculate (n-1)**2. That is the weight of the first vote. Subsequent votes are worth half of the value.

- - For example, to select 3 profiles, (3-1)**2 = 4. Then, each voting member gets three votes:
    - One vote worth 4 points
    - One vote worth 2 points
    - One vote worth 1 point

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IHE Rad Proposed Profile Voting Method

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