Re: current A.6 draft

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:54:31PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> >           b. A defeat (A,X) is weaker than a defeat (B,Y) if A is not
> >              the default option and V(A,X) is less than V(B,Y).  Also,
> >              (A,X) is weaker than (B,Y) A is not the default option and if
> >              V(A,X) is equal to V(B,Y) and V(X,A) is greater than V(Y,B).

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:04:40PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> I think you left out the definition of weaker for the default
> option, no?

Correct.  I did this intentionally.

Any option defeated by the default option is a "bad choice" at the
time of this election.

> Other comments on the draft:
> 
>     - Please use either tabs or spaces consistently.  ;-)

I don't notice this much, but I'll give try running the next draft
through col -bx.

>     - Not handling general (non int-1) supermajority ratios would be
>       silly.  As long as it will be understood that the n in n:1
>       need not be a whole number, there's no problem.  But it might
>       be better to mention this possibility explicitly.

Uh... can you express what the ambiguity is?  [I've only got a few
moments here for a reply, I'll try figuring this one out tomorrow.]

Thanks,

-- 
Raul