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

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:21:49AM -0500, Branden Robinson / SPI Treasurer wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Err,
> > >
> > > Citing yourself on Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:48:12 +0100 :
> > > |
> > > | On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:25:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > | > I suppose not voting for all 8 candidate (that is providing a string
> > > | > with less than 8 characters) will result in "none of the above" to rank
> > > | > higher than the candidates not figuring in the string, right ?
> > > |
> > > | It certainly should, or the vote tabulating software is horrendously
> > > | buggy and should not be trusted to return valid results.
> > >
> > > As i understand it, this is the complete oposite of what you are now
> > > claiming, i may be wrong or have misunderstood something though.
> >
> > You appear to have ignored or overlooked:
> >
> > Message-ID: <20030207050432(dot)GD17341(at)deadbeast(dot)net>
>
> Well, maybe, but does this mean you are no more saying what you did say
> in the cited mail ?
>
> Anyway, it does not matter much for me, since i ranked everyone, but
> when i voted, i had doubts about that, didn't find documentation or
> explanation easily, and was maybe a bit fooled by my knowledge of the
> debian voting system and all this long discution in debian-vote.

The voting page itself said:

| Voting "XY" states that you prefer candidate X to Y. However, it does
| not express any preference relationships for any of the other
| candidates.

Peter
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