Re: Our counting procedure

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > >> Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> >  > Here's how people voted:
> >  Can any of you guys that recounted the results (you know you did)
> >  confirm that the numbers are right? 
> 
> Hmm, actually, I get different results too.
> 
> Just taking:

The thing is, you only get a vote over someone else if they marked it.

IOW, if I only mark "--1--", then my vote is as good as nothing, since I
made no preference of one over the other. So not specifying a rank in
the order pretty much alleviates that choice in the tally for that
particular vote.

So "-321-"(arbitrary) would register as:

1 For Bdale over Anand
1 For Bdale over Ben

1 For Ben over Anand

**NOT**

1 For Bdale over Anand
1 For Bdale over Ben
1 For Bdale over Branden
1 For Bdale over Non-of-the above

1 For Ben over Anand
1 For Ben over Branden
1 For Ben over Non-of-the above

1 For Anand over Branden
1 For Anand over Non-of-the above


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