| From: | Peter Palfrader <weasel(at)spi-inc(dot)org> |
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| To: | spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Ties in Elections |
| Date: | 2003-02-06 20:23:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20030206202301.GB26912@valiant.sbg.palfrader.org |
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2003, Branden Robinson / SPI Treasurer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:25:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I suppose not voting for all 8 candidate (that is providing a string
> > with less than 8 characters) will result in "none of the above" to rank
> > higher than the candidates not figuring in the string, right ?
>
> It certainly should, or the vote tabulating software is horrendously
> buggy and should not be trusted to return valid results.
"none of the above" is no option in this elections. Is there any reason
it should have been?
As I understand this scheme if you don't rank an option you make no
statement about your preference for or against it at all.
Peter
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