On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > how can we know it is wrong (well know for sure, as different from having the > > suspision ?) (writing this last but...) The fact the the number of characters do not match the number of choices. > > > > if the ballot is listed as 1234 for example, does this correspond to voting > > for all 4 candidates and not having filled the further discution, or does it > > correspond to having voted for everyone except the first candidate. > > > > Or should it have been a ballot of -1234 or 1234- ? > > > > Anyway, i guess my ballot was also wrongly acounted, but i will wait for the > > second confirmation now, ... > > Any confirmation that doesn't have five positions is tallied incorrectly. > > In retrospect, I should have used A, B, C, D, and E for the ballot > options. For the purpose of an example, let's assume that I had. I acutally hope not. I tried pretty hard to make the description choices transparent. > If you voted ACED (A first, C second, E third, D fourth) on an ABCDE > ballot, your confirmation should say: > > 1-243 > > That is, the numbers indicate your ranking of each option, with > options indicated by position. Right.. so in Sven's question.. there was nothing signifying the blank vote. -1234 or 1234- would be necessary. > > Also, I've [belatedly] found out that debvote is a debian package. You > can pull down a copy of the package, read the docs for yourself etc. etc. > [Let me tell you: reading the docs is a lot easier than trying to figure > out how it works by reading the code when you're not even quite sure > which files are relevant.] > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian Team Linux Infrastructure Engineer *
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