Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: "Acceptance voting" Re: Voting, single transferrable vote, etc Message-ID: <6531@ficc.uu.net> Date: 14 Oct 89 02:04:03 GMT References: <8910081919.AA15665@helios.enea.se> <3315@watale.waterloo.edu> <2673@cpoint.UUCP> <6518@ficc.uu.net> <5815@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <5815@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes: > I can't think how that would be necessary. Under what criteria can the > name with the most yes votes fail, but some other name pass? sci.rap 250 YES 200 NO rec.music.rap 120 YES 3 NO rec.rap 12 YES 200 NO -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' 'U` Quote: Structured Programming is a discipline -- not a straitjacket.