Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Borda Count

[Tim Mensch (tim-coho-l]

Craig Ragland wrote:
> The whole idea of Borda seems more tied to supporting groups where there is
> some sense of competition about who's providing leadership - not co-creative
> approaches where leadership is more explicitly shared or collaborative.
>   
Someone still has to be chosen by the group as the person the group 
trusts to, e.g., write checks from the group account (treasurer), or to 
fill the largely-but-not-entirely token role of President of the Board 
to satisfy your legal requirements as a corporation. Yes you can select 
those people by some kind of consensus meeting (or via sociocratic 
elections), but at the end of the day you are legally required to fill 
those rolls--and if nothing else, Borda count gives you the ability to 
choose the person who has the most approval from the most people, which 
is as close to consensus as you can get without sitting down and arguing 
about the details for hours.

Tim

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Tim Mensch

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