Re: Board of directors membership election

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:44:02PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Craig Small wrote:
> > Why not fix the system so that it makes more sense for humans?
> > AC means first A then C then B and D equally last. It's what the vast
> > majority of people would expect. A vote of C means a vote for C only,
> > with ABD last.
> We're using condorcet voting, which does not have a concept of equal
> ranking except in the no preference sense.

It's trivial to deal with this issue in Condorcet voting, though. When
creating your matrix, you only put in values where a preference has been
expressed, eg for a vote [12--] amongst candidates A, B, C and D, you add:

A B C D
( 0 1 1 1 ) A
( 0 0 1 1 ) B
( 0 0 0 0 ) C
( 0 0 0 0 ) D

to your preferences matrix, instead of something like this, for the vote
[1243]:

A B C D
( 0 1 1 1 ) A
( 0 0 1 1 ) B
( 0 0 0 0 ) C
( 0 0 1 0 ) D

The complexity in the Debian scheme about handling circular ties (the
sequental dropping and so forth) is completely independent to this.

Cheers,
aj

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