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

>>>>> In article <20030222200329(dot)GB2665(at)iliana>, Sven Luther
>>>>> <luther(at)dpt-info(dot)u-strasbg(dot)fr> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 02:56:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson / SPI
> Treasurer 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.

I do not think this is relevant, since there _was_ no none of
the above option in this vote. (I now think that the current Debian
voting draft is vindicated by this confusion, since that insists on
having a default option for most votes).

manoj
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