Re: What does FD Mean
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 02:34:28PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 14:07:13+0200, Marc Haber a écrit :
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 12:15:25PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> > > Making a system more complicated to try and address a specific
> > > deficiency rarely reduces its attack surface. In this case, our voting
> > > system involves multiple levels (quorum, majority, ranking resolution)
> > > each with its own criteria and threshold and (due to Arrow's Theorem)
> > > unavoidable flaws, and every feature of this sort increases the
> > > system's attack surface to both strategic voting and to just plain
> > > doing the wrong thing given honest votes. Moving FD around in the
> > > ordering is an example of this, as is a quorum boycott.
> >
> > I have been a DD for nearly 20 years and I have not yet understood how
> > we vote. Before I joined Debian, I thought that the way Germany votes
> > for the Bundestag is a complex method.
> >
> > Greetings
>
> It's probably because I'm a mathematician, but I really enjoy our voting
> system, despite it also having flaws.
For me it is also mostly mathematical curiosity, and there is no
situation in real-life elections where it would be relevant.
Voting methods like Condorcet try to solve problems in single-round
first-past-the-post systems with more than 2 candidates that are common
in the UK and some former British colonies.
For people living in a country like Germany where the shares of
representation in parliament are based on the nationwide vote,
Debian is usually the first and only contact with anything
like Condorcet.
cu
Adrian
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