Re: Voting system for elections

From: Anthony Towns <aj(at)erisian(dot)com(dot)au>
To: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Voting system for elections
Date: 2016-08-17 02:57:09
Message-ID: 20160817025709.k3wytsy3wzd6fcd4@sapphire.erisian.com.au
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This is especially true given that our variant of Condorcet is still
> > interpreting a ballot "1. Z 2. X" as not preferring Z or X to Y,
> > which is IMO an extremely serious deficiency in itself.
> I was told off-list that this was changed now:
> https://github.com/u1f35c/spi-members/commit/330e3e0cadbfac6c0ea2421af4e900c6c58bc86d

This seems like it doesn't actually change the way votes are counted,
though it does do most of the work so that someone can easily make that
change later? Or am I misunderstanding?

Cheers,
aj

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