2009/6/26 Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org>: > Hi, > > Dave Neary wrote: >> >> A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work: > > Well, actually, I just found out from the OpenSTV guys, that how Filippo > said is how they work. > > In count 1, Vincent has 60 votes, they're shoved into a stack. The top 33 > votes from the stack get redistributed in count 2. No randomness at all, no > shuffling, and we don't look at the distribution of the 2nd preferences to > calculate who gets what.
If I understand the system correctly, the randomness does exist - the outcome is dependent on the order in which ballots are cast (or counted), which can be thought of as a random process. Is this correct? Cheers, -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list