Re: Election results

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:20:53AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> For the detailed results, please see:
> http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/votes/vote6/results.html

The results there seem a bit odd -- in particular, Martin and Ian
had a pairwise tie (exactly as many people ranked Martin above Ian as
vice-versa), so if there's a tie for position four between Joerg and
Joshua, afaics there should be a tie for position six between Martin
and Ian.

Running the numbers myself gave the following results after eliminating
Bdale, David, and Luk:

] Joerg (C)
] 3 beats 6: 42 40 Joerg beats Josh
] 3 beats 8: 51 32 Joerg beats Ian
] Josh (F)
] 6 beats 1: 50 34 Josh beats Martin
] 6 beats 8: 49 32 Josh beats Ian
] Martin (A)
] 1 beats 3: 44 41 Martin beats Joerg
] Ian (H)
]
] (each of the above defeats all other candidates)

That's a circular tie between Joerg, Josh and Martin for first place. The
strengths of the strongest beatpaths are:

Joerg -> Josh 42 votes
Joerg -> Josh -> Martin 42 votes

Josh -> Martin 50 votes
Josh -> Martin -> Joerg 44 votes

Martin -> Joerg 44 votes
Martin -> Joerg -> Josh 42 votes

Josh disqualifies Martin (50 vs 42) and Joerg (44 vs 42), breaking the
tie and leaving Josh as the winner of fourth place. This is using the
description from [0] as the definition of Cloneproof SSD -- which is
equivalent to the Debian method.

Eliminating Josh, then gives

] Joerg (C)
] 3 beats 8: 51 32 Joerg beats Ian
] Martin (A)
] 1 beats 3: 44 41 Martin beats Joerg
] Ian (H)

with Martin taking fifth place and Joerg sixth, with a complete ordering
for seventh to thirteenth place.

Cheers,
aj

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method