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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:32:50
Message-Id: 20060911183013.29ffd45b@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:59:46 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
2 <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 | > And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love,
4 | > showing once again that Condorcet is a brilliant system for picking
5 | > out people who aren't unpopular rather than people who are popular.
6 |
7 | Thanks for the interesting analysis, Ciaran.
8 |
9 | The more interesting question is whether that's a strength or a
10 | weakness. If people feel emphatically enough about a candidate to put
11 | them near the bottom of a list, having that count against them seems
12 | fair. That seems like a strenth of a ranking-based voting system.
13
14 If you're after a strong council, it's a weakness. If you're after a
15 council that doesn't piss anyone off, at the expense of not making any
16 progress, it's a strength.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh
20 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org

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