A little random but, for future consideration, approval voting generally leads to saner results than IRV.
It's very counter-intuitive to me, but I've been told by people smarter than myself that it's a pretty well accepted result. It's not perfect, but nothing is as proved by Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem) Some references: http://scorevoting.net/CompleteIdioticIRV.html http://www.electology.org/approval-voting-vs-irv -Shaneal On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My vote is 3, 4, 2. > >> Let's do a STV [1] ... > > Since STV for single-winner elections is equivalent to instant-runoff > voting. You may want to read [2] instead of [1]. In particular, the > flowchart [3] in [2] is very easy to understand. > > > Regards, > > Tsz-Wo > > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > > > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IRV_counting_flowchart.1.png > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> > To: general@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:06 PM > Subject: [VOTE] Rename hadoop branches post hadoop-1.x > > We've discussed several options: > > (1) Rename branch-0.22 to branch-2, rename branch-0.23 to branch-3. > (2) Rename branch-0.23 to branch-3, keep branch-0.22 as-is i.e. leave a hole. > (3) Rename branch-0.23 to branch-2, keep branch-0.22 as-is. > (4) If security is fixed in branch-0.22 within a short time-frame i.e. 2 > months then we get option 1, else we get option 3. Effectively postpone > discussion by 2 months, start a timer now. > (5) Do nothing, keep branch-0.22 and branch-0.23 as-is. > > Let's do a STV [1] to get reach consensus. > > Please vote by listing the options above in order of your preferences. > > My vote is 3, 4, 2, 1, 5 in order (binding). > > The vote will run the normal 7 days. > > thanks, > Arun > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
