Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Definition: An option F transitively defeats an option G if G defeats F or if there is some other option H where H defeats G AND F transitively defeats H. There is a mistake: ... if G defeats F

Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Definition: A proposition is a defeat, or a pair of options where both have received votes explicitly comparing the two options but neither option is able to defeat the other. Sorry, but I do

Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, even more confusion on my side :-( On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 1. Each ballot orders the options being voted on in the order specified by the voter. If the voter does not rank some options, this means that the voter prefers all ranked

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 1. [...] Any options unranked by the voter are treated as being equal to all other unranked options. I still do not understand the other unranked options. Could we simply write Any options unranked by the voter are

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello again! Another one: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 3. If an option has a quorum requirement, that option must defeat the default option by the number of votes specified in the quorum requirement, or the option is eliminated. We did not

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, trying to actually implement the algorithm from the draft turns out to be a good test :-) On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: ii. Unless this would eliminate all options in the Schwartz set, the weakest propositions are eliminated.

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:44:40PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:31:08PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Is the default option supposed to be in the list of options for which we do Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping below? Maybe we should replace Options

example implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html #! /usr/bin/env python # vote.py - implement the voting mechanism form the Debian constitution # # Copyright 2002 Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:17:15PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Example: (X is the default option) ABCDX A- 24 17 25 31 B 25- 26 24 29 C 31 24- 31 30 D 25 26 18- 27 X 15 18 15 18-

revised implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
, Jochen -- Omm (0)-(0) http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html #! /usr/bin/env python # debian-vote - implement the voting mechanism from the Debian constitution # # Copyright 2002 Jochen Voss

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:42:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Alternatively, and IMO, simpler: Definition: A proposition is a pair of options, J and K from the Schwartz set, such that J defeats K. Definition: V(X,Y) is the number of voters who prefer option X to

Re: revised implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:47:11PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: It's a difference from the former implementation because the former implementation was wrong. Maybe not: first it uses a completely different (but equivalent) method for the computation (beat paths). And second: the

Re: Nov 18 draft of vote counting methodology

2002-11-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:13:01PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: As always, if there are any flaws in my thinking or in my presentation, please tell me. This is a fairly complete rewrite so please scrutinize it suspiciously. A.6 Vote Counting [...] I like this draft. I think it

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-19 Thread Jochen Voss
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:55:05PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: If even one of the people voting BA had refused to vote, A would have lost. So what? The quorum is not a tool to make small margins seem larger, isn't it? Jochen -- Omm

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-19 Thread Jochen Voss
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:10:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: *shrug* I don't care about quorums :) We could trivially deal with quorums by saying: The quorum is met if Q ballots are received from distinct voters. If quorum is not met, the default option wins. Actually I would prefer this

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:16:27AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: As to why I prefer (2) over the rest... CpSSD is well-defined and reasonably well studied when all votes are counted equally. I find the idea of scaling votes involving particular options to change it enough that its

Re: A modest request

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:30:16PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: 1. Why are we doing this? What are the problems that we hope to solve? What are some examples of this? The description of the voting system in the current constitution is kind of broken. For one there is the spelling mistake

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:04:34AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Also, what do you think of imposing some kind of quorum requirement (like maybe 1% of the voters need to vote in an election which changes the constitution, or some other such thing quite a bit more severe for our current set of

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Here's some thoughts about how we might implement supermajority: [1] ... [5] I did not think much about this until now. But what do you think about [6] We could introduce a second kind of vote, which is exclusively used to

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:01:32AM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: A = change the scoial contract and remove non-free (Requires supermajority) B = try to nurture and increase non-free (Requires no supermajority

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Cases where the default option defeats another option are never the weakest defeats. Huh? Can you explain this to me? Why could this be true? Confused, Jochen -- Omm

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: In other words, supermajority options are eliminated only when their weakest defeats against schwartz set options are eliminated, and we have a bias towards the default option in some (but not all)

Re: test message

2002-11-24 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Feel free to send me a test message [off list] if today is Nov 24. Indeed we have Nov 24 in middle Europe, now. The last message I saw from you on debian-devel was [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I hope this helps, Jochen --

Re: Hybrid Theory

2002-12-08 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:20:20AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Can we possibly stop coming up with full blown voting systems while we still don't have a firm idea of the underlying things we're trying to achieve? Good idea :-) (1) We want a voting system that handles quorums.

analysis of a per-option quorum

2002-12-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I want to inject some facts into the discussion. You can also find the following analysis on my Debian voting system web page at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html I want to examine the following voting system: Let N(a,b) be the number of votes which

Re: an informal discussion of proof issues

2002-12-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: This is an informal writeup on the logical properties of the voting mechanics I proposed on 2002-12-08. Thank you for analysing this. You were faster the I am :-) Jochen -- Omm

time to make a decision about the voting amendment

2003-01-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I think it would be time to finish the process of repairing the voting mechanism in the debian policy. Prerequisites: 1) discussion: we had a lot of it 2) drafts to vote upon: we have at least Raul Miller's one What is missing now? I think we should vote about this soon, so that this

Re: Dec 15 voting amendment draft

2003-02-05 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:48:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: ie, the steps I'm suggesting are: 1. If there's a default option, satisfy quorum and supermajority [this leaves us with the default option, and those other options that satisify q sm;

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:55:52AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Ah, I think this might interact very badly with super majorities. Or at least it seems important to educate the voters that they really want to rank default above accept if they vote for reject. At least we have the following

Re: Voting System Requirements

2003-04-02 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:10:27AM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: Could you supply me any documentation of the Debian Project e-Voting system?. I collected information and references about the Debian voting system at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html If you

Re: question about DPL election results

2003-04-03 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: fre 2003-04-04 klockan 08.23 skrev Jochen Voss: Hello, on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2003 page at http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001 I read that With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum

Re: Call for votes for the Condorcet/Clone proof SSD voting methods GR

2003-06-08 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:37:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: To vote no, no matter what rank None Of The Above as more ^^ desirable than the unacceptable choices, ... [ ] Choice 1: Clone Proof SSD Condorcet Amendment [

Re: Call for votes for the Condorcet/Clone proof SSD voting methods GR

2003-06-10 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:03:39AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: For the benefit of the average non-voting-geek Debian developer, could the proponents of this amendment please explain what problem it attempts to solve, with real life examples? An explanation of why we need such a

Re: List of all votes cast in recent amendment?

2003-07-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:29:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:50:22 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Under the Debian Constitution, section 4.2(3), after the vote the Project Secretary lists all the votes cast. (This is different than

Re: prize dept

2003-09-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:48:01AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:27:24PM -0400, Christine Stockdale wrote: So, where's the prize? Does anyone know what's going on? This is the third on this list. Is someone running a scam with our name on it? Is it

Re: [AMENDMENT BR1] GR: Disambiguation of Section 4.1.5 of the constitution

2003-09-26 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:24:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I, too, would like to re-propose the General Resolution I proposed three years ago. (This is substantively the same, with only minor wording changes.) ==

Re: [AMENDMENT BR1] GR: Disambiguation of Section 4.1.5 of the constitution

2003-09-28 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:33:51AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 04:55, Jochen Voss wrote: I second the above amendment. Doesn't this mean the BR amendment now has enough seconds? I hope so :-) Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:04:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Discussion choice is unranked, then it is equal to all other unranked choices, if any -- no special consideration is given to the Further Discussion choice by the voting software). If the software implements the quota and

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-14 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, now I am really confused. On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:08:25AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Do _NOT_ encrypt your ballot; the voting mechanism shall not be able to decrypt your message. is to warn people that the mechanism cannot cope with encrypted messages. The

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-10-30 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I second the following proposal. On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:25:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [Please direct followups to debian-vote.] Now that the vote over the meaning of clause 4.1.5 of the Debian Constitution is drawing to a close, the time is ripe to clear the last bit of

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: What's your point? It's been discussed copiously before, so it shouldn't be discussed again? So what? debian-legal had to field redundant questions about what's wrong with the GNU FDL over and over and over again

Re: which proposals are current?

2004-02-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:34:16AM +, Jochen Voss wrote: What is the current state of the non-free GR? Which proposals are still being considered? Which proposals still do need seconds? Especially: On Oct

attempt to list current proposals

2004-02-21 Thread Jochen Voss
Vanicat Steve Langasek Branden Robinson Jochen Voss 2) Raul Miller submitted 9 Feb 2004 No seconds Maybe there are older version with seconds? 3) Anthony Towns submitted 22 Feb 2004 Seconds: Graham Wilson Stephen Staffor Martin Buck

Re: GR status

2004-03-01 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:31:41PM -0600, Debian Project secretary wrote: Proposer: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seconds:1. Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Kyle McMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-26 Thread Jochen Voss
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:56:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The Social Contract now states: ] 1. Debian will remain 100% free ] ... As this is no longer limited to software, and as this decision was made by developers after and during discussion of how we should consider non-software

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Hamish, On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:31:15AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Usually it refers to changes that clarify the meaning without changing that meaning. I'd be interested in hearing your definition, since you seconded the GR. Yes, this is exactly my point of view, too. And I think this

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-27 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Hamish, On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:22:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Do you believe that the GR has had no effect other than editorial? Or simply that the change is a good thing anyway? Because you are asking: I always read the word software in the old version of the social contract as

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:12:52PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: An easier way is to look at the votes when they come out. Anyone who votes further discussion in the top 3 is not interested in compromise or consensus, and has decided My way or the Highway. Sorry, but I

Re: Request for comments [voting amendment]

2002-11-14 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:03:54PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 4. If an option has a supermajority requirement, that option must defeat the default option by the ratio of votes specified in the quorum requirement or the option is eliminated. ^^ is

Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Definition: An option F transitively defeats an option G if G defeats F or if there is some other option H where H defeats G AND F transitively defeats H. There is a mistake: ... if G defeats F

Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Definition: A proposition is a defeat, or a pair of options where both have received votes explicitly comparing the two options but neither option is able to defeat the other. Sorry, but I do

Re: voting mechanics draft update

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, even more confusion on my side :-( On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 1. Each ballot orders the options being voted on in the order specified by the voter. If the voter does not rank some options, this means that the voter prefers all ranked

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 1. [...] Any options unranked by the voter are treated as being equal to all other unranked options. I still do not understand the other unranked options. Could we simply write Any options unranked by the voter are

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: 2. Options which do not defeat the default option are eliminated. Definition: Option A defeats option B if more voters prefer A over B than prefer B over A. Is the default option supposed to be in the list

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, trying to actually implement the algorithm from the draft turns out to be a good test :-) On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: ii. Unless this would eliminate all options in the Schwartz set, the weakest propositions are eliminated.

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:44:40PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:31:08PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Is the default option supposed to be in the list of options for which we do Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping below? Maybe we should replace Options

example implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-16 Thread Jochen Voss
/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html #! /usr/bin/env python # vote.py - implement the voting mechanism form the Debian constitution # # Copyright 2002 Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:17:15PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Example: (X is the default option) ABCDX A- 24 17 25 31 B 25- 26 24 29 C 31 24- 31 30 D 25 26 18- 27 X 15 18 15 18-

revised implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
, Jochen -- Omm (0)-(0) http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html #! /usr/bin/env python # debian-vote - implement the voting mechanism from the Debian constitution # # Copyright 2002 Jochen Voss [EMAIL

Re: revised implementation of the new voting machinery draft

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:38:08AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:50:59PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: ABCDX A- 27 24 29 29 B 22- 25 29 28 C 25 24- 30 32 D 21 21 19- 30

Re: Nov 16 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:42:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Alternatively, and IMO, simpler: Definition: A proposition is a pair of options, J and K from the Schwartz set, such that J defeats K. Definition: V(X,Y) is the number of voters who prefer option X to

Re: Nov 17 draft of voting mechanics

2002-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, first of all: the longer I think about all this election stuff, the less I like the ideas of quorum and supermajority. Condorcet voting with Schwartz Sequential Dropping has some good properties, as is explained on the electionmethods.org site. We modify this scheme by introducing the

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-19 Thread Jochen Voss
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:55:05PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: If even one of the people voting BA had refused to vote, A would have lost. So what? The quorum is not a tool to make small margins seem larger, isn't it? Jochen -- Omm

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-19 Thread Jochen Voss
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:10:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: *shrug* I don't care about quorums :) We could trivially deal with quorums by saying: The quorum is met if Q ballots are received from distinct voters. If quorum is not met, the default option wins. Actually I would prefer this

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-20 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:12:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: [1] The simplest: discard supermajority entirely. Nothing special is required to override important decisions. This has some elegantly simple mathematical

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:08:28PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: the whole supermajority thing i feel would make people vote insincerely. the ony way to avoid it, as i see it, is to _remove entirely_ the Quorum and Supermajority requirements. Just to repeat myself: I would support

Re: Nov 19 draft of voting amendment

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:24:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: 2. If fewer ballots are received than the required quorum for the vote, the default option is declared the winner. This is a version of quorum I could happily live with. 3. If a majority of N:1 is required

Re: Another proposal.

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:04:35PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:53:55PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Making random additions (with only half-understood consequences) to the original Condorcet voting scheme seems messy to me. Er.. are you suggesting we squelch

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:16:27AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: As to why I prefer (2) over the rest... CpSSD is well-defined and reasonably well studied when all votes are counted equally. I find the idea of scaling votes involving particular options to change it enough that its

Re: A modest request

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:30:16PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: 1. Why are we doing this? What are the problems that we hope to solve? What are some examples of this? The description of the voting system in the current constitution is kind of broken. For one there is the spelling mistake

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:04:34AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Also, what do you think of imposing some kind of quorum requirement (like maybe 1% of the voters need to vote in an election which changes the constitution, or some other such thing quite a bit more severe for our current set of

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Here's some thoughts about how we might implement supermajority: [1] ... [5] I did not think much about this until now. But what do you think about [6] We could introduce a second kind of vote, which is exclusively used to

Re: supermajority options

2002-11-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: In other words, supermajority options are eliminated only when their weakest defeats against schwartz set options are eliminated, and we have a bias towards the default option in some (but not all)

Re: test message

2002-11-24 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: Feel free to send me a test message [off list] if today is Nov 24. Indeed we have Nov 24 in middle Europe, now. The last message I saw from you on debian-devel was [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I hope this helps, Jochen --

Re: Hybrid Theory

2002-12-09 Thread Jochen Voss
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:51:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: It's irrelevant, we don't have votes without quorum/supermajority requirement. Sorry, I didn't know that :-( I think the above is a counterexample to your idea: Which idea? A counterexample to per-vote (and not pre-option)

analysis of a per-option quorum

2002-12-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I want to inject some facts into the discussion. You can also find the following analysis on my Debian voting system web page at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html I want to examine the following voting system: Let N(a,b) be the number of votes which

time to make a decision about the voting amendment

2003-01-16 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I think it would be time to finish the process of repairing the voting mechanism in the debian policy. Prerequisites: 1) discussion: we had a lot of it 2) drafts to vote upon: we have at least Raul Miller's one What is missing now? I think we should vote about this soon, so that this

Re: Dec 15 voting amendment draft

2003-02-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:48:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: ie, the steps I'm suggesting are: 1. If there's a default option, satisfy quorum and supermajority [this leaves us with the default option, and those other options that satisify q sm;

Re: Dec 15 voting amendment draft

2003-02-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, the new draft looks good to me. I only found some stylistic issues. On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:18:23AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Under 4.2 Procedure [for developers during a general resolution or election], change item 3 to read: 3. ..., and may be ended by the

what is the purpose of quorum?

2003-02-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I try to maintain a web page which explains our voting system. You can find this page at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html Among other things I want to explain the reasons for our changes to the textbook version of Condorcet voting with clone-proof

Re: Dec 15 voting amendment draft

2003-02-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Manoj, On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:28:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: is the new version, with the input of people on the list. I'm happy with this, now. Thank you for your work, Jochen -- Omm (0)-(0)

Re: February 17th Voting GR draft

2003-02-19 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:55:52AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: Ah, I think this might interact very badly with super majorities. Or at least it seems important to educate the voters that they really want to rank default above accept if they vote for reject. At least we have the following

Re: Voting System Requirements

2003-04-03 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:10:27AM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: Could you supply me any documentation of the Debian Project e-Voting system?. I collected information and references about the Debian voting system at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/comp/vote.html If you

Re: Voting System Requirements

2003-04-03 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:50:05AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Umm, mention that the actual voting software shall soon be packaged (name: devotee), and is currently available for inspection for any debian developer? Oh, yes, this is a good idea. Where can it be inspected?

question about DPL election results

2003-04-04 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2003 page at http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001 I read that With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of 43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44. Only one candidate failed to meet quorum. To find a cadidate which failed quorum I would

Re: question about DPL election results

2003-04-04 Thread Jochen Voss
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: fre 2003-04-04 klockan 08.23 skrev Jochen Voss: Hello, on the Debian Project Leader Elections 2003 page at http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001 I read that With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum

Re: question about DPL election results

2003-04-06 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:50:20AM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the section of the constitution quoted earlier, the quorum is the number of people who must prefer an option to the default option. Yes, and 228 voters expressed such a

Re: Bug#187864: www.debian.org: 2003 DPL election page claims that someone failed to meet quorum

2003-04-09 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Manoj, On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #187864: www.debian.org: 2003 DPL election page claims that someone failed to meet quorum, which was filed against the www.debian.org package.

quorum in 2003 DPL election results

2003-04-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, could we please have a sentence like all candiates did meet the quorum requirement in addition to this strange Only one candidate failed to win by a margin greater than the quorum thing on the web page http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001 In my eyes the current version of

Re: April 17th Draft of the Voting GR

2003-04-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 3. Any (non-default) option which does not defeat the default option by its required majority ratio is dropped from consideration. a. Given two options A and B, V(A,B) is the number of voters

Re: April 17th Draft of the Voting GR

2003-04-18 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Did you miss the first sentence? Yes, I did miss the first sentence. Sorry! 5. If there are defeats between options in the Schwartz set, we drop the weakest such defeats, and return to step 4. I asked

Re: Condorcet cuckoos: promoting the method by having it get the winners wrong

2003-04-22 Thread Jochen Voss
[ Cc to debian-vote, bacause it may be of general interest. ] Hello, On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:37:53PM +1200, Craig Carey wrote: At 03\04\21 22:42 +0200 Monday, Jochen Voss wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:22:51PM +1200, Craig Carey wrote: Jochen Voss keeps online a false claim

Re: April 17th Draft of the Voting GR

2003-04-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Like so? Yes, I like this approach much better. A minor issue: 6. If there are no defeats within the Schwartz set, then [...] Could we write something like When there are no more defeats left in the Schwartz

Re: April 17th Draft of the Voting GR

2003-04-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:18:33AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: However, given that defeats is a verb and we're using defeat as a noun, maybe it would be clearer to say: 4. We construct the Schwartz set based on undropped options and defeats: a. The vote tallies

Re: April 17th Draft of the Voting GR

2003-04-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 04:05:06PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think we should separate the definition of terminology of defeats from the details of constructions of the Schwartz set. I think we are loosing the track again. What is the problem you are trying to solve here? I

Re: Ending votes early

2003-05-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:52:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I suggest we strike the clause about the secretary's ability to end votes early. I agree with this. The no longer in daubt clause is hard to get right and early termination of votes doesn't buy us much. Jochen

Re: May 12th voting draft

2003-05-13 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:04:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I really would like to nail this down, and start the 2 week discussion period this week, and start the vote before the end of the month. This would be great :-) Jochen --

Re: May 12th voting draft

2003-05-15 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:04:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: We seem to have stalled again. I really would like to see the voting system fixed. Is there anything I could do to speed things up at this point? As far as I can see the following things need to happen: 1)

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello John, On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:17:20AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: 3. Any (non-default) option which does not defeat the default option by its required majority ratio is dropped from consideration. a. Given two options A and B, V(A,B) is the number of

second for John's amendment

2003-05-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I think that John's modification is a good thing. Hereby I second the amendment quoted below. Jochen On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: --- proposal-srivasta Fri May 16 09:42:59 2003 +++ proposal-jaqque Mon May 19 11:43:13 2003 @@ -1,139 +1,139 @@

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