Vote on PEP 308: Addenda

Gareth McCaughan Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com
Thu Mar 6 04:59:49 EST 2003


Norman Petry wrote:

>  On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:51, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
>
> > Troy Melhase wrote:
> >
> > >  I sincerely hope Guido takes the fundamentally flawed nature of this voting
> > >  process into account when he makes his decision.
> > 
> > All voting processes are fundamentally flawed. That's Arrow's theorem.
> 
> Perhaps, but not *equally* flawed.  See: 
> 
> http://electionmethods.org/Arrow.html

Quite true. And, for what it's worth, I think your choice
of voting process is better than the "official" one, and
I think a modified Alternative Vote would have been even
better. But they're all fundamentally flawed. :-)

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