Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for Perl help verifying old Gentoo elections
On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:00:51 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > Inspired by Robin, I've started working on scripts to verify old Gentoo > election results. Since our election mechanism is apparently the same > as used by Debian, it seemed an obvious choice to use the Debian tooling > (devotee) to verify our results. As far as I know it is not the same. While we both use Condorcet method, Gentoo allows several nominees with the same rank, while Debian does not. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko pgpKGpagYe9H7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for Perl help verifying old Gentoo elections
W dniu pią, 03.08.2018 o godzinie 18∶28 +0300, użytkownik Andrew Savchenko napisał: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 17:00:51 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > Inspired by Robin, I've started working on scripts to verify old Gentoo > > election results. Since our election mechanism is apparently the same > > as used by Debian, it seemed an obvious choice to use the Debian tooling > > (devotee) to verify our results. > > As far as I know it is not the same. While we both use Condorcet > method, Gentoo allows several nominees with the same rank, while > Debian does not. > They actually do: > Voters may rank options equally. [1] [1]:https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution.en.html A.6 -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for Perl help verifying old Gentoo elections
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2018, Michał Górny wrote: > Firstly, there is a result mismatch for council-201206 election. > More specifically, the countify results are: > [["dberkholz"], ["grobian"], ["chainsaw"], ["scarabeus"], ["ulm"], > ["betelgeuse"], ...] > While devotee considers ulm and betelgeuse tied: > [["dberkholz"], ["grobian"], ["chainsaw"], ["scarabeus"], > ["betelgeuse", "ulm"], ...] I haven't checked any of the perl code, but the online voting calculator at https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~legrand/rbvote/calc.html agrees with the countify ranking. Ulrich