On May 17, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Florian Haas <florian@hastexo.com> wrote:

I have previously suggested a different approach: improve the *quality*
of voting drastically, rather than abolish it altogether.

Now what follows isn't a voting process of my own design. We owe the
idea to a couple of professors of astronomy, who explain their approach
in a paper and a couple of interviews, all of which are linked from here:

https://plus.google.com/+FlorianHaas/posts/MsswaBHramG

(Please note: I have deliberately disabled comments on that post, in an
attempt to keep the discussion here on this list, where it belongs.)

If you care about the process, please take a few minutes to review at
least both videos linked from that post. If you're *really* interested,
read the article as well -- but for the purposes of this discussion, the
videos should suffice.