Forum:SysOp Election dilemma

Alrighty, so as most of you know, I recently made the Star Wars Fanon:Requests for adminship and Star Wars Fanon:Requests for adminship/Archive pages a bit more spiffy. So as I was editing the regular RFA page (not the archive), I came across a dilemma. Much like the United States has in the past, we need to decide how administrators (in the future, perhaps) will be elected and how in every situation possible. We can't always be electing upon every request. Even though there have not been any formal requests since Ewoksfist's request last year in March/April election, it could always happen and we have to be prepared; it's called requests for a reason. Anyway, the following is what we need to clear up (as a community, through consensus) about elections:


 * 1) If there is one candidate, how does the candidate win when running against zero opposition, and how does he lose?
 * 2) When there is a group election, as we've done in the past (when an administrator has nominated multiple candidates all together), we elect the top two; if there are only two candidates, they can't both win, and if there are three (as there has been in the past) having two of three win is sort of unfair, since two are guaranteed adminship while one is not; they should all be competing for the 1st slot, to see who the community supports the most.
 * 3) Lastly, if there is (say) a two way tie between two candidates, a three way tie between three candidates, or a four way tie between candidates, how would it be dealt with? If there is a three way tie in a four candidate election, who wins? How will this be determined? Please help me decide.

I have come up with solutions of my own and I want to see how we will do this. Once we can decide, I will create the page Star Wars Fanon:Requests for adminship/Rules to go in detail with all this things.

My solutions or proposals:


 * 1) I say that if there is a stand alone candidate, he or she can only win if he or she has zero opposition. A candidate can always argue and attempt to convince his or her opposition, so this would not be unfair. It's not like "Oh, one guy oppose you, too bad your candidacy is over." It's more like trying to convince those delegates to endorse you, within a time period of a month. Every request should be open for one month from the date of nomination, except in cases of group nominations, where all will end at the same time regardless of any late entries.
 * 2) If there is two candidates or three candidates: Simple; the top contender wins, which would be whoever has the most net votes (net means when the support and oppose are combined). There is no second place in three way elections or two way elections, it's just too small of a number of candidates. Once it starts to become 4 candidates or more, then 2 candidates can win the request for adminship. So basically in a 2-3 candidate election, only one can win. The only way no candidate would win is if they were all in the negative votes or if they had more oppose than support.
 * 3) If there is a tie between two candidates, we have a SysOp election; meaning the administrators (only) vote for who they believe is the best of the two. Whoever gets the most votes from the SysOps wins. If there is a tie AGAIN with the SysOps, then I suppose we could do a re-vote or something else; I couldn't find a solution for that part. This whole SysOp voting thing would apply to any ties; so if there is a three way tie between 3 candidates in a four way election, the top two would win. Again, if there is a tie between the voting sysops, we'd need a solution. That's the basic outline. So if we were to agree to what I've proposed here it would be as follows:


 * 1 SysOp request: The candidate can only win if he/she has absolutely zero opposition.
 * 2 SysOp requests: The top candidate with the greatest net votes wins the nomination, unless those candidates have more oppose votes than support votes.
 * 3 SysOp requests: Same as 2 SysOp requests.
 * 4 SysOp requests: Same as 2 SysOp requests, except the top two win, except where they have more opposition than support.
 * In cases of a tie: The current Administration, SysOps, or Cabal (whatever you prefer) votes on the candidate they believe is best for the job.

Let's discuss.