Re: abiftool, awt, and devotee development

2024-08-19 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Wouter, Thanks for giving this a look! More inline... On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 2:24 AM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [ABIF] seems similar to the format that is used by the tool which the > Debian > Technical Committee uses. > > I'm personally not involved with Devotee, but the format seems > stra

abiftool, awt, and devotee development

2024-08-15 Thread Rob Lanphier
ext format (called "Aggregated Ballot Information Format" or "ABIF") that I've helped create, and I'm hoping folks familiar with the devotee codebase would be willing to look at the format, and maybe even add ABIF support to devotee. Way too many details follow ---

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: Some analysis of DPL 2003 results

2003-04-20 Thread Rob Lanphier
David Weinehall wrote: Interesting reading, although I don't know what I should make out of this sentence: "What complicates this is that the ballot allows for multiple first choices. Relatively few Debian developers did this though (453 of the 488 total votes)." I'd say that 453 out of 488 is

Some analysis of DPL 2003 results

2003-04-20 Thread Rob Lanphier
cisco for future mayorial elections, Branden Robinson would have won. At any rate, I'm not trying to kick up any dust or call the legitimate results into question. My take is that the analysis seem to further legitimize the results. Anyway, enjoy. Let me know if you have questio

RE: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-23 Thread Rob Lanphier
er expression may involve coming back from the grave. Those that really want to alter the character of an organization can often "vote with their feet" (which is almost certainly true with Debian). Rob Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla

RE: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-22 Thread Rob Lanphier
er expression may involve coming back from the grave. Those that really want to alter the character of an organization can often "vote with their feet" (which is almost certainly true with Debian). Rob Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-21 Thread Rob Lanphier
r a second vote among all options that had the required approval score, or one could reverse the order of application of Approval and Condorcet, and use Condorcet as the tiebreaker among all options that have supermajority approval. Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla

Re: Condorcet Voting and Supermajorities (Re: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Disambiguation of 4.1.5)

2000-11-21 Thread Rob Lanphier
l for a second vote among all options that had the required approval score, or one could reverse the order of application of Approval and Condorcet, and use Condorcet as the tiebreaker among all options that have supermajority approval. Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla

Debian pairwise voting (fwd)

2000-02-06 Thread Rob Lanphier
ng resources: Condorcet method homepage: http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html (Perl script and online web app demos available) Election Methods List: http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em Hope this helps. If you have any questions, I'd be glad to help. Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED]