On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:10:04AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Condorcet hasn't caused any trouble for Debian, and it assured fair elections without any tactical voting and less prefered outcomes being selected due to peculiarities of voting process.
I, too, am a fan of Condorcet, despite the complexity. HOWEVER, for the PRESENT election, I would support any sensible and easy method, because it's just a logo, and any of the top competitors are going to be excellent.
Condorcet is sufficiently complex to make voting by hand and tabulating by hand really difficult. But I would support a simple implementation of Condorcet in the software, as I think that Condorcet really is superior to other methods precisely in helping to find a _consensus_, i.e. the avoidance of divisive tactical voting.
There are many simple programs to calculate Condorcet winner, like this one: http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet-program.html Debian has Condorcet software integrated with GPG-signed voting by mail, but it's a bit too heavy procedure for us.
The "harder" part is a parser for ballots, finding the winner is trivial - just filling NxN table and making a summary of it.