On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
Whereas this is a correct statement, it is irrelevant. The voters voted knowing that only support votes count. If the system were different, they could have voted differently.
Sure, and with many alternative systems the results could have been different. I'm only pointing out that she did have a lot of support by common sense metrics.
Btw, it is not true that "only support votes count". In our current system the opposing votes count much more, in fact.
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