Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> writes: > Thank you for the detailed analysis. > > You missed one point: > Excluding votes where more than one > option were ranked first, and counting only first choices, we get the > following results: > Option 1: 93 > Option 2: 90 > Option 3: 61 > Option 4: 12 > "Invalid" votes (more than one first choice): 20 > > So, using plurality voting, we would have had a different result than > the one we had with condorcet. This is actually quite rare: it > happened with the debian-private declassification vote in 2005 (option 1 > was the plurality winner), and in the 2003 DPL election (Branden > Robinson was the plurality winner).
I suspect this is because the obvious "please, dear deity, stop talking about things constantly and just do them" vote ranks 3 above 2 above 1, so I doubt many votes transferred from 3 to 1 when 3 was eliminated. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
