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Debian voting system

Posted Jun 26, 2008 17:09 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111)
Parent article: Notes on the Fedora board election

While the math being the Debian system is non-trivial (although hardly complex), I'm not sure how actually voting with it could be simpler. You rank the candidates (or options) numerically. How could it be easier?

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Posted Jun 27, 2008 3:22 UTC (Fri) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

We also use Condorcet in Gentoo and it's worked very well.  It's nice to be able to express
things like, say, 'i like these four guys and don't really have a preference about the rest,
except for that one bozo who i really don't want elected'.

a
b
c
d
efghi
j

And if you have no preference, simply say so by putting all the nominees on the same line.