On Sat, 19 May 2007, CLAY S wrote: > My name is Clay Shentrup and I am an Ubuntu user - so I have much respect > for your endeavors and your hard work on them. I write to discuss a simple > improvement that could be had with your elections, merely by changing to a > better and simpler voting method: Range Voting.
Warren Smith's copious arguments to the contrary, it's not entirely clear that Range Voting is superior to or even simpler than concordecet voting. > Dr. Smith also has done some analysis of Debian's elections, which represent > a wonderful dataset for scientific study. > http://rangevoting.org/Debian2003.html His analysis is rather scanty, unfortunatly, and fails to provide any real reasoning why we should even consider switching to Range Voting, especially as the conversion from the balots cast to RV balots is entirely arbitrary. Finally, if you are really interested in even being able to test RV in Debian, you need to actually write the code to implement RV in devotee. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
