Re: [gentoo-dev] Council election master ballot

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:59:46 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love,
| > showing once again that Condorcet is a brilliant system for picking
| > out people who aren't unpopular rather than people who are popular.
| 
| Thanks for the interesting analysis, Ciaran.
| 
| The more interesting question is whether that's a strength or a
| weakness. If people feel emphatically enough about a candidate to put
| them near the bottom of a list, having that count against them seems
| fair. That seems like a strenth of a ranking-based voting system.

If you're after a strong council, it's a weakness. If you're after a
council that doesn't piss anyone off, at the expense of not making any
progress, it's a strength.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaranm at ciaranm.org


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