Re: Result for vote regarding new members for the board of directors

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, John Goerzen wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:49:28AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Documenting a buggy interface isn't fixing the problem, and the obvious
> > interpretation of the vote "------1-" or "G" is to rank Bruce above
> > everyone else. For comparison, the latest drafts of the Debian voting
> > mechanism say:
>
> This omits a useful option. For instance, what if I do not feel that I know
> enough about a given candidate and wish to express no opinion whatsoever
> about that candidate?

FWIW I've been asked how this very thing could be done during the vote
by at least one voter. So to assume that everyone who voted "XYZ"
prefers them to everybody else might not be correct.

Peter
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