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

2000-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Personally, I worry about any kind of wholesale change in the language > of the constitution. Yeah, if you change major chunks of the document > then current ambiguities would go away. But how do we know whether we're > introducing n

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

2000-12-10 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Personally, I worry about any kind of wholesale change in the language > > of the constitution. Yeah, if you change major chunks of the document > > then current ambiguities would go away. But how do we know whether we're > > intro

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

2000-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:48:07AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:16:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It's not like your interpretation (of supermajorities in particular, > > but also of cyclic tie-breaking) has ever actually been used before, > > either within Debian o

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

2000-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Personally, I worry about any kind of wholesale change in the language > of the constitution. Yeah, if you change major chunks of the document > then current ambiguities would go away. But how do we know whether we're > introducing ne

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

2000-12-10 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Personally, I worry about any kind of wholesale change in the language > > of the constitution. Yeah, if you change major chunks of the document > > then current ambiguities would go away. But how do we know whether we're > > introd

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

2000-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 07:48:07AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:16:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It's not like your interpretation (of supermajorities in particular, > > but also of cyclic tie-breaking) has ever actually been used before, > > either within Debian or