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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Thoughts on upcoming trustee elections
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 08:13:11
Message-Id: 42748F98.5060204@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Thoughts on upcoming trustee elections by Aron Griffis
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4 Aron Griffis wrote:
5 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Sat Apr 30 2005, 12:46:38PM EDT]
6 >
7 >>Oh, you mean the mess that is Debian elections. =\
8 >
9 >
10 > Do you have more information on what you mean by this? I find it hard
11 > to believe that using a Condorcet voting method would contribute to
12 > "the mess", but I certainly would like to learn from (rather than
13 > repeat) Debian's mistakes. Are you able to give more details?
14
15 I mean you can't even understand the results without a detailed
16 analysis. I was following the recent DPL elections, and at the end it
17 was basically, "Branden won, but nobody really seems to have a good
18 understanding of why or how."
19
20 For example, this post: http://lwn.net/Articles/131551/
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22 " The results are posted at
23 http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/leader2005_results.txt
24 http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/leader2005_results.png
25 The tally sheet is at:
26 http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/leader2005_tally.txt
27 The list of people voting is at:
28 http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/leader2005_voters.txt"
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30 None of which make _any_ sense to me with the exception of the voters list.
31
32 A comment from the LWN post:
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34 "Does anybody here actually understand the results? I see a big bunch of
35 numbers resulting somehow in a winner. However the seem to be no
36 explaination whatsoever what these numbers actually mean. "
37
38 Perhaps a voting method that regular people can actually understand
39 intuitively would be more helpful.
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