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.