>>"Norbert" == Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Norbert> Thats very strange. So if I only consider one candidate Norbert> vorthy of a vote, and fill in just one square, my vote means Norbert> nothing? That dosent seem right :) I would not say it meant nothing. It means that you prefer one candidate, but say nothing about how the other choices stand in respect to each other. It also means that is your candidate does not win you have no preferences. tb> If that's what you think, then you rank them thus: tb> 1) Your candidate tb> 2) None of the above tb> 3 and 4) The other two Umm, this is slightly different, in that you assign a value to candidate you vote 3 above the candidate voted 4; also, you indicate that you would rather see further discussion than seeing other people win, this is a stronger anti-everyone-but-my-candidate stance than the one above. You get to decide how stronlgy you feel pro you guy and anti everyone else ;-). Bdale> The discussion after last year's vote on this topic seemed to Bdale> lead to a concensus that we should treat any unmarked choices Bdale> as being of equal preference, at a preference level below any Bdale> marked entries. That is indeed how the scripts work. manoj -- "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hoping when a rock or a club will do." McCloctnik the Lucid Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]