Re: Ending votes early
On Tue, 13 May 2003 03:15:01 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> said:
> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 06:52 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> After re-reading the draft (prompted by Branden on IRC), I think I
>> don't know how to define "when the vote is no longer in doubt",
>> since people can always revote.
> Well, the current draft says "In this context, we ignore the
> possibility that people might want to change their vote."
Is that a reasonable statement?
>>
>> Say, with 1000 voters, on day 1, 800 people voted option A over
>> option B,
> According to the current draft, the vote can be closed at this
> point.
Again, that would mean that the voters, though initially
promised a certain amount of time to determine, cast, and change
their vote, would have suddenly had the period reduced; and the
results of the vote would have been different.
The major problem, as I see it, is that we have not yet
conducted enough votes, and on enough different _kinds_ of options,
to convincingly determine what fraction of voters typically change
their minds, and to build a safe buffer in determining when a vote is
not in doubt. Given that, I am not comfortable enshrining our
speculation of the magnitude of this number into the constitution,
which does tend to get writ in stone.
manoj
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