The voting has concluded and Color Scheme B has won! (To help refresh people’s memories I’ve attached below a photo I took, but note that this is not properly color calibrated at all.)
Thank you everyone who took the time to review the mockups and vote – we had 33 members participate. We really appreciate everyone ranking their preferences. For those who might be curious Ranked Choice Voting is also known as “Instant Runoff Voting”. It’s a way of running “primary” elections and the “final” election in a single go. Most elections boil down to 2 real candidates because that way you don’t “waste” your vote (e.g. voting for an independent for President – we know an independent won’t win). By gathering people’s ranked preferences, we instantly know the following:
- Color scheme E is people’s least favorite option overall, so we can eliminate it (moving those votes to their second choice).
- Of A, B, C, and D: A would be people’s least favorite option, so we can eliminate it too.
- Of B, C, and D: C would be people’s least favorite option, so we can also eliminate it.
- Then, between B and D: B wins. We know we could re-run the vote again, with just B vs D, and B would win.
A good video explainer of Ranked Choice Voting is here: https://youtu.be/gq7N2hmX9FI
And the full results for our color vote are here: https://www.rcv123.org/results/5SfPZs6GcGFUCE5mWFPDS7/ff8juhBbA2ETyzfUAtWWnG?_secure=xwxIoedJlD
As next steps the board will be selecting a matching color for the front gates, and updated door color options for each unit to choose from. Stay tuned!
