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Aron Griffis wrote: [Wed Apr 27 2005, 10:10:06PM CDT] |
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> Aron Griffis wrote:[Wed Apr 27 2005, 09:48:40PM EDT] |
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> > If we were to go ahead with a Condorcet election, then each voter |
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> > would need to rank the candidates rather than simply voting yes or no. |
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> Ranking could be pretty simple to implement like this: |
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> (1) Provide an executable /usr/local/bin/ballot on dev.gentoo.org that |
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> would create an appropriately umasked file ~/.ballot and dump into |
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> it a randomized list of the candidates. |
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> |
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> $ ballot --new |
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> Please edit ~/.ballot, putting your first choice at the top, |
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> second choice on the second line, down to your last choice on |
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> the bottom line. |
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> (2) After editing, the user would then verify they didn't screw up the |
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> edit by running ballot again. |
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> $ ballot --check |
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> Looks good! Please leave ~/.ballot in place until after the |
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> election is concluded. |
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> or |
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> $ ballot --check |
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> Your ballot is missing the following candidates: ... |
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> etc. |
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> (3) When the election is finished, we'd use another script to collect |
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> all the votes and generate the listing to put into the Condorcet |
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> calculator. |
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> I'd volunteer to write "ballot". |
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Works for me. Thanks! |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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