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Re: electing multiple people



On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:35:32 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> said: 

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:26:42PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
>> > So, I proposed the following addition to the section A.6. Vote
>> > Counting (part of appendix A Standard Resolution Procedure):
>> 
>> The method you suggest suffers from not delivering proportional
>> results.  See discussion in
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/06/msg00318.html> and
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/06/msg00261.html> 
>> Let's not invent our own bad voting systems.

> Er, but I didn't suggest that. Or at least I don't think I did - or is
> the picture provided at the vote.d.o generated by applying the
> iterative method?

        The pictures are my very own, minimal computation, not-to-be-
 taken-seriously-but-present-some-pretty-pictures-that-in-most-cases-
 do-not-depart-too-far-from-the-truth.

        In no way are these pretty graphics to be taken as a basis of
 actually making decisions; they present instead a rough graphical view
 of the pair wise defeats in a method only suited to finding a single
 winner.

        I am working on getting a working code for devotee for multiple
 winners; which will degenerate into the current method for the special
 case where the number of winners = 1; please don't hurry me, I tend to
 commit typos  and other errors when so hurried.

        Of course, patches to devotee are always welcome.

        manoj
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