Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 08:40:03AM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes: >> > 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 > > That's why we don't get pure donkey votes (12345678). > >> and there is no insistence that one ranks all options > > This has been suggested in this very thread. I'm struggling to understand the point you're making here now. Are you saying that you originally raised the spectre of Donkey Votes as an argument against the idea of having to rank all choices? 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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