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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