Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005
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- Subject: Re: Vote for the Debian Project Leader Election 2005
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)>
- Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:38:09 -0500
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- In-reply-to: <20050327071236.GB14258@pegasos> (Sven Luther's message of "Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:12:36 +0200")
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:12:36 +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> said:
> Well, you have just to check the devotee code is doing what it is
> supposed to do, and that this is the actual code running on the
> actual ballots, you don't really need to look at the ballots. Since
> the devotee code is supposed to be deterministic, and always produce
> the same result for a determined set of votes independently of vote
> order and timing. If not we would have a serious problem, which we
> supposedly solved duing the vote method discussion back then.
That is not true. If a person votes 5 times, and all of them
differently, the way the vote is counted is not independent of vote
order.
manoj
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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