On Aug 27, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Simon Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rerunning the election, in whatever form, is likely to be time
consuming, and probably result in a vanishingly small turnout the
second
time round. Should we just give the outgoing chair a casting vote?
Personally, I'd be comfortable with just flipping a coin.
One way to flip a coin would be to give the position to whoever's
MD5 hash
of their name lexicographically sorts earlier. It has the minor
potential
drawback that the tiebreaker would be known in advance, though.
I'd prefer that tie means fail. This is supposed to be setting
standards,
which ought to be agreed at a near-consensus level. If we're tied,
clearly
we've got no consensus.
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