[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

Sat Jun 7 12:27:09 UTC 2008

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 01:57 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> > If
> > the latter, this could happen with the Schulze method as well.  People
> > might rank one candidate "1" and leave all the rest blank.  There
> > wouldn't be a strategic reason to do this (would there?), but it still
> > might happen.
> 
> I'd love to see stats on that. My bet is that a many will rank only a
> few,  because of lacking patience, or a belief that they are helping
> their primary choices win like on an  approval vote. ::shrugs::
> 
> One improvement might be to force people to rank all the candidates
> (not uniquely rank, just rank).  I'm sure some would give up voting if
> they couldn't just put a "1" next to their favorite, but would biasing
> the election towards the choices of people who are more patient be all
> that bad? ;)

And what you'll end up with is lots of people putting 2, 2, 2, 2 (or
whatever number), or even worse, random numbering into the rest just so
they could get out of there.

> > I'm interested in whether or not we'll even know if this happened.
> > How much data are we going to be given about the votes?
> 
> In the past information on how many were approved was released.   I
> don't see why the complete decrypted ballots (which contain no
> personal information) couldn't be released.  Especially since we'll
> have ranked data it would be interesting to see how different counting
> systems (IRV, approval of  all ranked, approval of all 1s, etc) might
> have influenced the results... and it's pretty normal for the
> anonymous ballots in an election to be not treated as secret.

It will be.

-- 
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  - Heinrich Heine
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