Result for vote regarding new members for the board of directors

[Manoj Srivastava]

>>>>> In article <20030223111503.GC14177 at wiggy.net>, Wichert Akkerman
>>>>> <wichert at wiggy.net> writes: 

 > Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 >> Why is that undesired in Debian? Indeed, since you cannot force
 >> anyone in Debisan to stop discussing anything anyway, how is the
 >> reject this proposition any different whatsoever than further
 >> discussion?

 > This is not Debian; I'm not really interested in how relevant this
 > might be to Debian.

	Cute. You cut away the context that shows that this is indeed
 about debian voting. Let us see what the exchange was, really, with
 context: 

>>>>> Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
>>>>>>    A.6 Vote Counting
>>>>>>      1. Each voter's ballot ranks the options being voted on.  Not all
>>>>>>         options need be ranked.  Ranked options are considered
>>>>>>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>         preferred to all unranked options.  Voters may rank options
>>>>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>         equally.  Unranked options are considered to be ranked equally
>>>>>>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>         with one another.  Details of how ballots may be filled out
>>>>>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>         will be included in the Call For Votes.

 >>>> In article <20030222215239.GC25781 at wiggy.net>, Wichert Akkerman
 >>>> <wichert at wiggy.net> writes: 

 >>>>> Sounds like you are trying to introduce the concept of
 >>>>> 'everyone else equally' into Condorcet, which feels a bit
 >>>>> awkward. If you start doing that you might also want to
 >>>>> consider adding an 'anyone but X' option.

 >>> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 >>>> Debian already has this; rank the one person unacceptable to you
 >>>> below the default option, rank everyone else equally above the
 >>>> default option.

 >>> Yes, the default option it the trick Debian uses to accomplish
 >>> that.  However it can also cause an election result that is
 >>> undesired: the 'further discussion' outcome.

 >> Why is that undesired in Debian? Indeed, since you cannot force
 >> anyone in Debisan to stop discussing anything anyway, how is the
 >> reject this proposition any different whatsoever than further
 >> discussion?

 > This is not Debian; I'm not really interested in how relevant this
 > might be to Debian.

	Heh. After 6 email exchanges where we are talking about the
 Debian draft, you suddenly want to say this conversation was not
 about Debian's voting system?

	manoj
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