On Jun 23, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Debian's counting method is more complicated than that :( We use the > concord accounting system where an option gets a "point" if more people > prefer it to some other option... Debian only falls back to STV in case of > a tie.
A fairly concise explanation of the system is at: http://www.debian.org/vote/howto_result I guess my next project is to write an explanation of the *actual* voting system ;-) [Aside: The best explanation I've ever seen of a non-trivial voting system was done by the BBC's web site, explaining how the top-up PR system would work in the elections for the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament.] Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Visit my home page! | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. | Visit the Amiga Web Directory | | University of Mississippi | http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html | =============================================================================
