Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A proposal for a new voting scheme
Keywords: Vote, Alien, STV, MAUVE, 100 NOs, 2/3 majority
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.064120.9288@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 13 Nov 89 06:41:20 GMT
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In article <4470@solo10.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>I like the proposal, but there's another point to consider: what if there's
>a close finish of 2 (or more) groups?
>Example:
>			YES	NO
>	sci.aquaria	666	500
>	news.aquaria	665	500
>
>Shouldn't both groups be created?

Institute a required 2/3 minimum majority in addition to the minimum
100 yes-no plurality, and the above problem goes away, as it should.

>(Monica Cellio) | maart@cs.vu.nl, mcsun!botter!maart

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