Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:13:15PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote:
> * Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> [2021-04-18 16:10]:
> > However, that seems likely to only work if there is a method for
> > drafting the statement first and then simply having an up or down vote.
> No, because we have a ranking vote, where the majority is defined as the
> ratio of voters who prefer an option to the default versus those who
> do not.
>
> As you can see in the DPL election, both candidates achieved 4:1 majority,
> which would be impossible with a simple plurality vote.
>
Thanks for the explanation (and also to Adrian).
Election systems are not my area of expertise and I wrongly assumed that
some form of super-majority would require a binary decision rather than
a ranking.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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