On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:40:14AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > Debian uses a single transferable voting method, in which developers > rank their preferences. Presumably your votes would be 1243 (in order > of ballot position). > > Assuming "no further discussion" appears #1 on the least ballots, it > is dropped and anyone who voted for it as their first preference gets > reallocated to the second preference (i.e. someone voting 2341 will > have their vote reallocated to option 1). This iteration is repeated. > > So, assume we have the situation (assuming further discussion was > dropped for now): > > 1 - 100 first place votes > 2 - 80 first place votes > 3 - 110 first place votes > > Option 2 gets dropped, and everyone who placed option 2 first has > their votes reallocated based on their second preferences (or third > preferences for people who voted x2x1, where x is don't care). > Assuming people who supported 2 are more likely to support opt. 1 than > opt. 3, opt. 1 will win. > Debian's counting method is more complicated than that :( We use the concord accounting system where an option gets a "point" if more people prefer it to some other option... Debian only falls back to STV in case of a tie. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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