On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Personally, I'd be comfortable with just flipping a coin. > > It is an accepted practice in many US election jurisdictions. > It is likely to occur rare enough that anything more is > going to be overkill. > >> 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. > > The MD5 hash of the entire email (including headers) of > the last person to vote for the specific individuals? > So if you want to plan to rig the tie breaker for a > planned tied election, you have to do a lot of work > (and other than myself, who would even think that devious?) >
Bah. Person whose mail came from the lowest IP address gets an extra half vote. Derrick _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
