On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:51:26AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > Hey Adrian,
Hi Barak, > > When looking at the tally of the latest systemd vote,[1] > > there are plenty of votes like > > 1------- > > > > It is obvious what these voters wanted to express, > > and that their ballot was wrongly filled due to a > > lack of understanding how our voting system works. > > That's really interesting. > > Maybe we should cobble up a GUI tool to download & correctly fill out > & sign & email a ballot? Instead of numbering items (which requires > knowing how to count) people could drag them into an order, etc. This > would allow inactive or non-uploading DDs, ones who can't manage (or > can't be arsed) to fill out and gpg-sign a ballot, to express their > valuable opinions. It could look for the right key using the > devscripts mechanisms, like ~/.devscripts DEBSIGN_KEYID and > environment variables and such. Maybe check if any available private > keys appear on the Debian keyring. That way people who haven't needed > their key in years could still vote. > > (Not sure if joking.) after thinking about it for a few days, I suggest the following change to the Constitution: +All options must be ranked. -Not all options need be ranked. -Ranked options are considered preferred to all unranked options. Voters may rank options equally. -Unranked options are considered to be ranked equally with one another. Such a change would not remove any voting options since votes like 1------- have equivalent espressions like 12222222. But it would help voters who are not used to ranking from real-world elections. > --Barak. cu Adrian
