On 06/11/2012 08:56 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > First, congratulations to all the new Board members, and many thanks to > all the candidates that didn't make the cut.
Nice list. Congrats new board, and everyone else who ran. > Reading the results[1], I saw in round 3: > "Candidate Bastien Nocera was chosen by breaking the tie randomly." > > How was this done randomly? What would the results have been if > Emmanuele was selected as the tie-breaker instead? It wouldn't have made any difference in this case at all. In fact, from what I understand it can never make any difference when breaking ties choosing a winner. It *does*, however, when breaking ties eliminating candidates. See this short paper for an overview of how it can matter (and why not use randomness to break ties!): http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE18/I18P6.PDF Cheers, behdad > Cheers > > [1]: http://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=17 > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
