Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Hi Neil,

Le vendredi 31 janvier 2014 à 11:55 +0000, Neil McGovern a écrit : 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:33:33AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Given the Condorcet voting method is susceptible to tactical voting,

> I'm not sure what you mean here, could you care to elaborate?

Wikipedia has a nice description of how tactical voting works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_voting#Types_of_tactical_voting

In the current example, a voter can rank insincerely her init system
choices after #1, in order to give less chances to the one she would
have ranked #2 sincerely.

With only two realistic options (systemd / upstart), this problem
doesn’t exist. But introducing more options on the ballot, it becomes
possible to obtain a rigged outcome. The vote being public, it is all
the more easier to see how you should rank other options than your
preference in order to defeat them all.

Cheers,
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