Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-23 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:45:51PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > I'm going to focus only on your claim that this page shows an example > of the violation of monotonicity by Manoj's proposal. > > Monotonicity (http://electionmethods.org/evaluation.html#MC) requires > "With the relative order

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > "Hard to understand"? We'd require a certain level of voter approval > > before we'll consider an option -- options which don't achieve that > > can't win. How is this "hard to understand"? On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:50:02AM +020

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-22 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Raul, On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > "Hard to understand"? We'd require a certain level of voter approval > before we'll consider an option -- options which don't achieve that > can't win. How is this "hard to understand"? The thing which is hard to understa

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Buddha Buck
Raul Miller wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: I don't believe that it's acceptable for an otherwise beaten option to win due the the otherwise winning option being discarded due to a quorum requirement, as John suggests might happen. Under the proposed sy

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Guido Trotter
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:05:47AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi, > > If the "winning" option is discarded due to quorum requirements, then > given that all non-default options have the *same* quorum requirement, > this is exactly what would happen. > I think this is not inherently true. Sinc

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > I don't believe that it's acceptable for an otherwise beaten option > to win due the the otherwise winning option being discarded due > to a quorum requirement, as John suggests might happen. Under the proposed system, we would do ex

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 21 May 2003 21:57:13 +1200, Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: >> Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. >> >> Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). >> >> > > To make your proposal work right, we'd n

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:58:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > At this point; under my version; I can express my opinions > > with no fear of harming my candidate. Under your amendment; if I do > > not vote; the vote is nullified. However, if I vote against the > > option -- the opt

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:57:13PM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. > > Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). > > > > To make your proposal work right, we'd need a separate

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Nick Phillips wrote: > If a winning option would be discarded due to quorum requirements, then > I think the vote should probably be considered void. That seems to be the best choice. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was sele

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:27:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Here, the vote(s) for B caused A to win. > > Other examples are possible (for example: 19 ABD, 1 BDA). > > > > To make your proposal work right, we'd need a separate quorum > > > determination phase which is independent of the voting

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > If there is such a lack of participation that even our low quorum > requirement is not meet, then is this a bad thing ? Yes -- because it encourages people not to vote in that situation. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discla

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:09:43AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Content-Description: signed data > Hi, > > Sven Luther wrote: > > But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider > > knowledge > > A situation where a vote would be successful, but fail for lack of > participat

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:12:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider > knowledge, the votes are secrets, and the results published only after > the election is closed. This doesn't change the fact that there is a chance that by voting

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > But you cannot know what the situation is, unless you have insider > knowledge A situation where a vote would be successful, but fail for lack of participation, often requires no insider knowledge at all to be recognizeable as such. In that situation, the opponents can

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:58:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Scenario B: > > Consider the case where the quorum is 45, and there have been > 44 votes -- 23 for, 21 against. (Only one option on the ballot). I am > opposed to the option. > > At this point; under my version; I

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > example: quorum of 20, two ballots on the measure, plus the default > option. two major schools of thought: those that support option A, and > those that support option B. If the quorum of 20 is significant, neither school of

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Oh, as a sponsor of the GR, I suppose I should clarify that I am not going to accept this amendment; I consider it a bad one. This makes our vote method fail the monoticity criteria (http://www.electionmethods.org/evaluation.htm). See Scenario 2 below. I'll present two (pe

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit > >"stealth decisions" by only a handful of developers. While this is a > >good thing, the per-option quorum from the amendment

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it > smells of politics. :-/ the changes are related, if just 2 was changed, then the majority requirements in 3 have an undesired side-effect. let me find that message . . = http://lists.debian.org

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, You actually propose two separate amendments. Please don't do that, it smells of politics. :-/ John H. Robinson, IV wrote: - 2. If the ballot has a quorum requirement R any options other -than the default option which do not receive at least R votes -ranking that option

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:19:33PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >The amendment uses the concept of a Quorum requirement to inhibit >"stealth decisions" by only a handful of developers. While this is a >good thing, the per-option quorum from the amendment has a tendency to >fur

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-20 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
org --- proposal-srivasta Fri May 16 09:42:59 2003 +++ proposal-jaqque Mon May 19 11:43:13 2003 @@ -1,139 +1,139 @@ PROPOSAL ______ Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SS

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Michael Banck wrote: >> - sign your response (!) > > He did. Oops, sorry, my mistake. :-( -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Relax, Julie. Everyone will understand.

Discussion period starts for the Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We have six seconds (well, five people on public mailing lists) for the GR labelled: "Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying". It would not hurt to get a few more sponsors f

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El día 16 may 2003, Matthias Urlichs escribía: > Hi, > >> Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: > >> __ > > > > I second this resolution. > > The accepted

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:06:23PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The accepted procedure seems to be to > - sign your response (!) He did. Michael -- Well, if we can't talk about the Hurd here, we may as well talk about sex. They are often equivalent. functionally speaking. neal: T

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, >> Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying: >> __ > > I second this resolution. The accepted procedure seems to be to - quote the full resolution - sign your response (!) -

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

2003-05-16 Thread Ben Collins
> == > > PROPOSAL > __ > > Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof