[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

Darcy Casselman dscassel at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 00:16:26 EST 2014


For the voter, it's just a ranked ballot.  The tabulation of the votes is
kind of complicated.  That's where the pairing comes in.  The wikipedia
article goes into excruciating detail.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:29 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
wrote:

> So, you sort the options in the order preference.  I got confused when
> it talked about "pairing".
> --
> William
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:50:31PM -0500, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> > Condorcet is a ranked ballot, and it's a favourite of voting system
> nerds.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
> >
> > There are lots of reasons why "choosing one of N options" is a terrible
> > voting system, but that's beyond the scope of this mailing list.  But I
> > encourage you to ask Bob sometime. :)
>
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