Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:38:09AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:12:36 +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said:
>
> > Well, you have just to check the devotee code is doing what it is
> > supposed to do, and that this is the actual code running on the
> > actual ballots, you don't really need to look at the ballots. Since
> > the devotee code is supposed to be deterministic, and always produce
> > the same result for a determined set of votes independently of vote
> > order and timing. If not we would have a serious problem, which we
> > supposedly solved duing the vote method discussion back then.
>
> That is not true. If a person votes 5 times, and all of them
> differently, the way the vote is counted is not independent of vote
> order.
A true, but obviously it is independent on order of the last votes of any one
person :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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