Debian decides to allow secret votes

Posted Mar 29, 2022 13:35 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Debian decides to allow secret votes by donbarry
Parent article: Debian decides to allow secret votes

How is there no consensus though?

185 people voted Option 2 over NOTA.
61 people voted NOTA over Option 2.

That's a 3-1 supermajority, the presence of any other options doesn't change this. The only argument would be that people didn't understand what NOTA meant, but it's hardly a new thing.

The part I find most disturbing is the low turnout, by my reckoning about less than 10%? Many places with constitutions would consider that too low for a constitutional change.

Debian decides to allow secret votes

Posted Mar 29, 2022 15:50 UTC (Tue) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link] (1 responses)

> the presence of any other options doesn't change this

Of course it does. Context matters. Here is an example, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/three-near-...

Debian decides to allow secret votes

Posted Mar 29, 2022 20:59 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]

In an FPTP situation votes can be split. This is a ranked vote system that doesn't have this defect.

I've read what I can see of the thread and no-one seems to have been confused by the ballot.