> On Oct 23, 2018, at 7:06 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 06:38, Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote:
>>
>> The voting procedure is described in PEP 8001. I flipped it from "Draft" to
>> "Active" without further changes a few minutes ago. That's in the interest
>> of giving everybody enough lead time as well as resolving the situation
>> "well before PyCon 2019" as per Guido's and Carol's requests.
>>
>> Please read all the governance PEPs, ask for clarifications, voice all your
>> concerns now. Ideally we will make all of the required changes to the PEPs
>> early and not last minute before the vote.
>>
>> There were some suggestions on Discourse for changes to the selected model,
>> the biggest being Stefan's suggestion to encrypt the votes and Donald's
>> suggestion to use STAR instead of IRV for counting votes. We ended up not
>> going with those suggestions. See Brett's comment here as to why:
>> https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-8001-python-governance-voting-process/233/46
>
> My main concern was about the potential for vote-splitting with
> multiple "council" type proposals on the ballot, and IRV is enough to
> address that (having been an Australian voter for ~22 years, I'm also
> very familiar with it, and given the specific set of proposals we're
> voting on, I don't think the case where STAR would give a different
> answer is likely to come up - the various draft PEPs have too much in
> common with either each other or the status quo for it to be likely
> that a significant proportion of the folks voting will find any of
> them completely unacceptable)
>
We’re using IRV and I accept that, but I just want to point out that IRV still
has a form vote splitting (in electoral parlance, vote splitting is the
“favorite betrayal criterion” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ>. IRV only protects against vote
splitting when you have a very weak or a very strong candidate ranked first.
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