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Re: question about DPL election results



fre 2003-04-04 klockan 09.25 skrev Jochen Voss:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> > fre 2003-04-04 klockan 08.23 skrev Jochen Voss:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > on the "Debian Project Leader Elections 2003" page at
> > > 
> > >     http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001
> > > 
> > > I read that "With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of
> > > 43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44. Only one candidate failed to meet
> > > quorum."  To find a cadidate which failed quorum I would look for a
> > > number less then 44 in the fifth column of the tally table.
> > > 
> > > But there is no such number.  So my question is: who did not meet
> > > quorum?  How can I see this from the tally table?
> > 
> > You have to look at (X,5) - (5,X), which gives you:
> How this?  Do you have any references?  I do not find such a
> rule, neither in current constitution nor in the current voting
> amendment draft.

Sorry, I don't have any references, it just struck me as obvious based
on how condorcet voting works... But if it isn't obvious, it should
definitely be clarified.


/Martin
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