Election results

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:58:27AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> More generally, is SPI's type of Condorcet ever likely to elect
> someone who polarises views, or who many inexplicably dislike?  What
> does this say for any plan to use a Condorcet for debian's social
> committee?  Could majorities always prevent minority reps?  For SPI,
> does this mean that candidates from smaller projects are at the mercy
> of the debian project?

As I'm sure you know - as it was discussed during the soc ctte debates
at Debian - the election method used here fails proportionality.

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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä
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