Hi, Andrew Pimlott: > Empirically, many people look at their vote as a means for achieving > the best outcome, not a statement of belief. (Eg, those who > preferred Nader but voted for Gore.) Do you assume that there are > no such people in Debian, or would you propose to exclude them? > Given that Debian has a sensible voting system (or at least we're trying to build one) where "statement of belief" is basically the same as "voting for the outcome you think best", this is a null question.
> 2. voting insincerely will be reliably effective in some > elections > This cannot be fixed by any voting system. Condorcet (and Approval), at least, has a few rather nice constraints as to what you can affect by an insincere vote. -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/
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