Re: Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Draft ballot
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:21:02 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> said:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:46:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> >> > It eases the parsing of occasional corner cases with some
>> >> >> > voters, yes, but if forces *all* voters to read something
>> >> >> > that is inherently confusing.
>>
>> > Well, let me provide a more accurate analogy - if you pay several
>> > bills with that money, the bills don't have numbers assigned to
>> > them that you have to know about, they simply have the names of
>> > the recipients.
>>
>> Thanks for proving my point. Every single one of those bills have
>> a serial number, which, like the Choice N string, is of little
>> interest to me. I, there fore, ignore it
> Because you can do so easily - the designer of the note made sure to
> print the value in a much larger font and made it stand out, while
> he put the serial number somewhere peripheral and smaller where
> barely anyone notices.
I would argue that the ballot has a similar clearcut
distinction: The ranking is the number the voter enters, the ordering
of the choices has the prefix "Choice", and actually precedes the
actual option.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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