Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:45:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: I'm going to focus only on your claim that this page shows an example of the violation of monotonicity by Manoj's proposal. Monotonicity (http://electionmethods.org/evaluation.html#MC) requires With the relative order or

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Hard to understand? We'd require a certain level of voter approval before we'll consider an option -- options which don't achieve that can't win. How is this hard to understand? The thing which is hard to understand, is

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Hard to understand? We'd require a certain level of voter approval before we'll consider an option -- options which don't achieve that can't win. How is this hard to understand? On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:50:02AM +0200, Jochen

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:58:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Scenario B: Consider the case where the quorum is 45, and there have been 44 votes -- 23 for, 21 against. (Only one option on the ballot). I am opposed to the option. At this point; under my version; I can

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider knowledge A situation where a vote would be successful, but fail for lack of participation, often requires no insider knowledge at all to be recognizeable as such. In that situation, the opponents can

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:12:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider knowledge, the votes are secrets, and the results published only after the election is closed. This doesn't change the fact that there is a chance that by voting

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:09:43AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Content-Description: signed data Hi, Sven Luther wrote: But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider knowledge A situation where a vote would be successful, but fail for lack of participation,

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: If there is such a lack of participation that even our low quorum requirement is not meet, then is this a bad thing ? Yes -- because it encourages people not to vote in that situation. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). To make your proposal work right, we'd need a separate quorum determination phase which is independent of the voting phase.

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Nick Phillips wrote: If a winning option would be discarded due to quorum requirements, then I think the vote should probably be considered void. That seems to be the best choice. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). To make your proposal work right, we'd need a separate quorum

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:58:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: At this point; under my version; I can express my opinions with no fear of harming my candidate. Under your amendment; if I do not vote; the vote is nullified. However, if I vote against the option -- the option

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 21 May 2003 21:57:13 +1200, Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). To make your proposal work right, we'd need a separate

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: I don't believe that it's acceptable for an otherwise beaten option to win due the the otherwise winning option being discarded due to a quorum requirement, as John suggests might happen. Under the proposed system, we would do

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Guido Trotter
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:05:47AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi, If the winning option is discarded due to quorum requirements, then given that all non-default options have the *same* quorum requirement, this is exactly what would happen. I think this is not inherently true. Since all

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Buddha Buck
Raul Miller wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: I don't believe that it's acceptable for an otherwise beaten option to win due the the otherwise winning option being discarded due to a quorum requirement, as John suggests might happen. Under the proposed

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
-srivasta Fri May 16 09:42:59 2003 +++ proposal-jaqque Mon May 19 11:43:13 2003 @@ -1,139 +1,139 @@ PROPOSAL __ Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit stealth decisions by only a handful of developers. While this is a good thing, the per-option quorum from the amendment has a tendency to further

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it smells of politics. :-/ John H. Robinson, IV wrote: - 2. If the ballot has a quorum requirement R any options other -than the default option which do not receive at least R votes -ranking that option

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matthias Urlichs wrote: You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it smells of politics. :-/ the changes are related, if just 2 was changed, then the majority requirements in 3 have an undesired side-effect. let me find that message . . =

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Raul Miller wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit stealth decisions by only a handful of developers. While this is a good thing, the per-option quorum from the amendment has a

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Oh, as a sponsor of the GR, I suppose I should clarify that I am not going to accept this amendment; I consider it a bad one. This makes our vote method fail the monoticity criteria (http://www.electionmethods.org/evaluation.htm). See Scenario 2 below. I'll present two

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: example: quorum of 20, two ballots on the measure, plus the default option. two major schools of thought: those that support option A, and those that support option B. If the quorum of 20 is significant, neither school of

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-17 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: - sign your response (!) He did. Oops, sorry, my mistake. :-( -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Relax, Julie. Everyone will understand.

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Ben Collins
== PROPOSAL __ Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: __ I second this resolution. The accepted procedure seems to be to - quote the full resolution - sign your response (!) - send the reply to debian-vote

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:23PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: The accepted procedure seems to be to - sign your response (!) He did. Michael -- jbailey Well, if we can't talk about the Hurd here, we may as well talk about sex. neal They are often equivalent. functionally

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El día 16 may 2003, Matthias Urlichs escribía: Hi, Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: __ I second this resolution. The accepted procedure seems to be to - quote the full resolution

Discussion period starts for the Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We have six seconds (well, five people on public mailing lists) for the GR labelled: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying. It would not hurt to get a few more sponsors for this GR