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Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

Posted Apr 13, 2009 18:35 UTC (Mon) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader by bpearlmutter
Parent article: Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

> The Condorcet voting method did not really play much of a role.

I only mentioned it because that method of voting makes the "usual" reporting on the vote difference harder to do. In elections that do not allow preference voting, one can say X got Y% more of the votes to give some kind of idea of the margin of victory, but that "analysis" is not so simple for Condorcet voting.

jake


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Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

Posted Apr 16, 2009 4:54 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote a script for Gentoo that will make a nice graph, given a master ballot: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council... -- and it should be easy enough to modify for another file format.

Here's an example of the output: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council...

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

Posted Apr 16, 2009 13:54 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

Posted Apr 16, 2009 17:20 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

I don't find that one particularly useful for understanding the distribution of ranking. Maybe I just don't know how to read it.

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