Re: Robonson wins; Debian v monotonicity (was Re: Some analysis of DPL 2003 results

2003-04-21 Thread Rob Lanphier
Drake Diedrich wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:46:06PM +1200, Craig Carey wrote: [something or other] If this was a real post and not a troll ... you need to be a *bit* less emphatic with your opinions and more clear with your justifications. The modification of IRV to handle equally

Re: Robonson wins; Debian v monotonicity (was Re: Some analysis of DPL 2003 results

2003-04-21 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:46:06PM +1200, Craig Carey wrote: > > This is a lengthy argument against the current Debian problem of > wrongly rejecting Mr Branden Robinson who would almost certainly be > the winner if the method of the last election was maximally proportional > (and passing P2) and

Re: Robonson wins [...]

2003-04-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, > He's one of /THEM/ and, no, I'm not permitted to go into details. Well, if we're having THAT kind of discussion, there's a couple of quotes which have been censored from the *CENSORED* report which prove that they have sucxiqz567$%& NO CARRIER

Re: Robonson wins [...]

2003-04-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:44:38PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > This election has demonstrated quite nicely that those Debian developers > > who voted prefer Martin to any other single candidate. In other words, if > > you held a vote which would ask whether to annul

Re: Robonson wins [...]

2003-04-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:44:38PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > This election has demonstrated quite nicely that those Debian developers > who voted prefer Martin to any other single candidate. In other words, if > you held a vote which would ask whether to annul the vote and replace > Marti

Re: Robonson wins [...]

2003-04-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Summary of my point: This election has demonstrated quite nicely that those Debian developers who voted prefer Martin to any other single candidate. In other words, if you held a vote which would ask whether to annul the vote and replace Martin with Brandon, the majority would be against t

Robonson wins; Debian v monotonicity (was Re: Some analysis of DPL 2003 results

2003-04-21 Thread Craig Carey
This is a lengthy argument against the current Debian problem of wrongly rejecting Mr Branden Robinson who would almost certainly be the winner if the method of the last election was maximally proportional (and passing P2) and monotonic. I.e. the method then is almost the smallest adjustment that