Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-10 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anthony Towns writes: > That's not really legitimate STV since when a vote ranks two candidates > equally I count it towards both totals, which is why 231+237 = 468 which > is more than the total number of votes (421), but it's the best we can > do, I think. Nah, here are the results from my WebV

Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-10 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns wrote: > If I remember how my script works well enough to use it correctly, > the "clone" candidates (ones that a lot of voters rank next to each other) > were: > > 326 votes (77%), Ari and Ted That's very unfair to Zeke. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectro

Re: Vote analysis

2006-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > So, by the looks of things, we get the same result with either > American-style voting (only the first ranked candidate counts) Actually, by American-style voting, several of the candidates would have needed to band together to geta bigger share of the votes, with the ones p

Vote analysis

2006-04-09 Thread Anthony Towns
Some quick analysis of the tally sheet: First preference votes: 152 Anthony 122 Steve 75 Andreas 70 Jeroen 48 Bill 9 Ari 4 Ted 14 NOTA (that counts 48 votes that ranked two or more options equal first multiple times) Using STV (aka IRV, which .au uses fo

Re: Some vote analysis

2005-04-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: [...] Anthony> Another interesting question, especially given we had two Anthony> candidates who were planning on working together to lead Debian Anthony> should either be elected, is how closely together candidates Anthony> were ranked. If you count two

Re: Some vote analysis

2005-04-15 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway. I think it's always interesting to analyse the voting a little > beyond just "who won". Anyway, some (IMHO) interesting implications from > this vote. Indeed, it is interesting (as have been your occasional ubuntu commentaries on your web site). Thanks for compili

Some vote analysis

2005-04-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, (Hrm, vote.debian.org has the 2005 elections out of order on the sidebar) Anyway. I think it's always interesting to analyse the voting a little beyond just "who won". Anyway, some (IMHO) interesting implications from this vote. First, in spite of some quite disparate choices, and a