Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-10 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: If I remember how my script works well enough to use it correctly, the clone candidates (ones that a lot of voters rank next to each other) were: 326 votes (77%), Ari and Ted That's very unfair to Zeke. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single

Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-10 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: That's not really legitimate STV since when a vote ranks two candidates equally I count it towards both totals, which is why 231+237 = 468 which is more than the total number of votes (421), but it's the best we can do, I think. Nah, here are the

Vote analysis

2006-04-09 Thread Anthony Towns
Some quick analysis of the tally sheet: First preference votes: 152 Anthony 122 Steve 75 Andreas 70 Jeroen 48 Bill 9 Ari 4 Ted 14 NOTA (that counts 48 votes that ranked two or more options equal first multiple times) Using STV (aka IRV, which .au uses

Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: So, by the looks of things, we get the same result with either American-style voting (only the first ranked candidate counts) Actually, by American-style voting, several of the candidates would have needed to band together to geta bigger share of the votes, with the ones

Re: Some vote analysis

2005-04-15 Thread Hubert Chan
Anthony == Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: [...] Anthony Another interesting question, especially given we had two Anthony candidates who were planning on working together to lead Debian Anthony should either be elected, is how closely together candidates Anthony were ranked. If