On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:53:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I challenge the use of the term insincerely here. > > It's a technical term. We're asking for people to give their preferences > in a list of options; if that's not what they give us (because some > other set of numbers would be more likely to produce a better result), > then that's considered an insincere vote. > > The problem here is that generally we don't want people to have to worry > about hacking the voting system just to express an opinion.
Indeed. What we want, ideally, is a voting system where people can express their opinions on the ballot as they would express them outside the context of a vote. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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