[Guido] > There are some interesting speculations possible about the spread of > the numbers ,and they give extra data on how the voters seem to think > and which (types of) candidates are likely to do well in future elections.
Ir was already speculated about before the election ;-) As predicted by a brief article I linked to on Discourse, limiting the number of approvals to 5 favored a landslide victory of the best-known candidates. Except for Nick, the weakest "winner" got 50% more approvals than the strongest "loser". So "landslide" for 4. In pure Approval voting (which we've used for PSF Board elections), there is no limit, and then you get a clear picture of approval levels. The "losers" here should realize their relatively low approval levels _may_ be an artifact of the voting process. Like in "first past the post" plurality elections, with a limit there's pressure for voters to betray their actual favorite(s) if they _think_ they can't win, to avoid "wasting their vote". Without a limit, there's never a reason (regardless of whether a voter is 100% honest or 100% tactical) not to approve of your true favorites. In the Discourse discussion, there _seemed_ to be consensus that limiting to 5 was probably a mistake, but it would require a change to some PEP to remove the limit, and the issue didn't come up before it was too late. Beyond that, pure Approval is just unsuitable _if_ there's some goal to achieve some level of "diversity", in an extremely broad sense. While we don't have political parties, we are developing factions, like "old-timer vs new-comer", "conservative vs aggressive" wrt language changes, and so on. Some form of "proportional representation" voting is needed _if_ we want to cater to that (and, yes, there are _variations_ of Approval voting that address such concerns - but they're all more complicated and I doubt Helios supports them). _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
