On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:35:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:08:05PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > On Friday 09 March 2007 16:18, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Given that this election has a record number of options, > > > making us move to using Hex instead of decimal numbers for ranking, > > ^^^ > > > coupled with the fact that I'll be out of town all of next week, you > > > are getting to see the draft ballot earlier this year than is the > > > norm. > > > Hmmm, decimal would have been quite a bit more straightforward and required > > a lot less of an explanation. > > It would have meant handling multi-char vote values, necessitating changes > to all the reporting including the tally sheet and the vote > acknowledgements, each of which represent the individual ballot options as a > single character column. nah, we should change the voting method, just let each option choose a glyph, and vote glyphs in order, like in: AEF|CD|BG which would be the same vote as: 1322113 Then each candidate could chose a glyph to represent him on the ballot: ♥, ♫, ♀, … and I'm sure someone would also want to choose │ just for the fun. Wouldn't be that really great ? Sadly there is no pony-glyph (sorry martin, would a horse ♘ be OK though ?). -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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