Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:27:28PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: >> * Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> [2021-04-11 20:53]: >> > I am not saying people were stupid. >> Okay, that was hyperbolic. But you have to admit that you don't seem to >> put much confidence in people's ability (or willingness) to read the >> explanations that come with each ballot. I am by no means a voting >> system nerd and found them quite understandable. > > Here's how this works in the real world: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_vote > > As our ballots routinely get sorted (systemd was FBADHEG$) according to the > vote's spectrum, it would be nice to get resistant to such votes. Thus, > what about sorting ballots randomly instead? Do you have any evidence at all that this occurs in Debian votes? If you have read the article to which you refer, you'll have seen: Donkey votes are most common where preference voting is combined with compulsory voting, such as in Australia, particularly where all candidates must be ranked on the ballot paper. Our elections are not compulsory, and there is no insistence that one ranks all options, so I seriously doubt that people who are going to the trouble of filling in all the numbers would bother if they had no interest in the actual outcome, which is what you are trying to imply. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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