On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:32:00PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > IIRC the adoption of Condorcet voting predates that web site; your > best bet would be to go through the mailing list archives and find the > discussions that led to the constitution (which predate my involvement > in the project, IIRC).
For what it's worth, Debian _doesn't_ use Condorcet voting, it uses something called "Concorde Vote Counting", which appears to have sprung fullly-grown from the brain of Ian Jackson :-) You would have to ask him where it came from. As far as I can recall, there was no discussion of the voting system when he proposed the original draft of the Constitution; it was merely accepted as something that looked sensible. > As for the system's complexity, at least from the voter's standpoint, > if voters are incapable of rank-ordering their own preferences I have > to wonder how they manage to get along in life... :-) Debian developers aren't used to having to rank preferences. Since it's all free software, they can just install everything they like. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
