On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:47:03PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:11:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > It is not possible for to express a lack of preference among multiple > > options simultaneously with a preference for any of those multiple > > options over another option? > > It's possible. Even if the underlying data structures wouldn't > support it (they do), you could always give everybody two votes, > so that they could introduce their own ties between their own > preferences. > > Is it a good idea? I don't have an answer for that. > > Should it be included in the constitution?
I think we should. It may prove to be useful when we have a contentious General Resolution, for instance, with a bunch of competing versions on the ballot. As the number of ballot options increases, the likelihood increases of a voter being indifferent between one or more, but preferring either to some hated other set of options. -- G. Branden Robinson | I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux | above, but it is too long to fit [EMAIL PROTECTED] | into this .signature file. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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