Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Draft ballot
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:45:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> [ ] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst
> > ...
> >> [ ] Choice A: None Of The Above
>
> > Would it be possible to use just letters, rather than both letters
> > and numbers ? That will make everything a little less confusing -
> > in particular it makes it impossible to mistake rankings for choices
> > and vice versa.
>
> Just don't think of 0xA as a latter, since it is not. Anyway,
> internally devotee uses numbers starting at 1 for the ranking as well
> as the options on the ballot.
We strayed from the real point here... the point is that these internal
variables are completely irrelevant to the voters and should be avoided.
The program can detect the line "[ ... ] Option name" just as easily
as it can detect "[ ... ] specialstring: Option name".
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