User:A Horse called Man/proposal

Schulze/Condorcet voting
The Schulze/Condorcet preferential voting method will be used. The voter ranks the candidates in order of preference. The voter may ...


 * ... give the same preference to more than one candidate. This indicates that this voter is indifferent between these candidates.


 * ... skip preferences. However, skipping preferences has no impact on the result of the elections, since only the order in which the candidates are ranked matters, and not the absolute numbers of the preferences.


 * ... keep candidates unranked. When a voter doesn't rank all candidates, then this is interpreted as if this voter
 * (1) strictly prefers all ranked to all unranked candidates, and
 * (2) is indifferent among all unranked candidates.

The top-M candidates of the Schulze/Condorcet ranking are elected, where M is the number of vacant seats. This method was already used for the 2008 and the 2009 Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections.