Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!
Nigel Jones
dev at nigelj.com
Wed Jul 23 00:00:52 UTC 2008
Tim Jackson wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote (to a bad address copied from a bad address in my
> original mail):
>
>> Just vote 0 for all of them.
>
> If I understand the voting system correctly, that's not equivalent
> because it means "no opinion" not "none of the above" or "none" [1]. I
> think under the current system with no quorum that if (hypothetically)
> everyone except one person wanted "none" and thus voted zero for
> everything, if one person voted "1" for "Stupidname" then "Stupidname"
> would win regardless of the clear contrary opinion of the majority.
Just a clarification to this statement, the voting form states:
"Fedora Project has implemented Range Voting for this election, in
particular the "Range (score-summing, blanks treated as zero score, no
quorum rule)" range voting system.
To cast your vote in this election simply select a value between 0 and 9
with 0 as 'least or no preference' and 9 as 'highest preference'.
At the end of the election, the highest ranking candidate(s) are marked
as the winners."
This means:
* There is no need for a 'No Opinion' option
- "No Opinion" options are only useful for elections using 'averaging',
where it basically acts as an abstain. An Averaging variation of Range
Voting would add all the numerical 'scores' for a candidate, and then
divide by number of non-no opinion voters, it'd then have to (from
memory) reach a quorum of x% of the maximum possible vote (this is
debated because there are SO MANY different variations)...
- As such, use 0 to facilitate a blank ballot/no opinion
* It is possible to fill in the form with all zero's
- However this will have little/no effect, except to say in the end of
ballot that x voted with x including yourself (useful in a way to show
the number of people interested in voting)
* There is a small mistake in the text
- highest 'ranking' candidate(s) should read highest 'scoring'
candidates (this is fixed in my working copy.
As an extra note, the CFRV, while a useful resource is quite bias to a
variation of Range Voting which we don't use, it's particularly focused
around promoting Range Voting as a decent format for a presidential
election (that's my take anyway).
On a side note, there are other forms of voting similar to Range Voting,
that form a (in my opinion) much fairer system, one I can think of off
the top of my head, is STV, while complicated it does work and is quite
effective for single horse and multiple horse races.
- Nigel
Fedora Elections Guru
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