ANN: Ballot for Complementary PEP308 Ternary VOTE

[phil hunt]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:48:41 -0800, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>Norman Petry wrote:
>
>> This is NOT a ballot for the "official" PEP-308 vote being run by
>> Raymond Hettinger.  It is for a different vote that is intended to
>> COMPLEMENT the results of the official vote, by using a different type
>> of ballot, and a different method of tallying the results (Condorcet's
>> Method), for those who may be interested.  If enough people choose to
>> participate, it will provide a high-quality source of additional
>> information about the preferences of the Python community regarding
>> the
>> ternary operator.
>
>In my opinion this is a very bad idea.  All a second concurrent vote is
>going to do is create more confusion about which vote is official,
>whether people have already voted, etc.

I disagree. I think Condorcet is the best voting system to use for 
this purpose. If the original vote had used it, there would be no 
need for a second one.



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