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From: geyer@aylmer.uchicago.edu (Charles Geyer)
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Subject: Re: Guidelines vote cancelled (was: CfV Interest Group Surveys
Keywords: single transferrable votes STV newsgroup creation interest group
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Date: 7 Dec 90 23:17:59 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.221016.14262@daimi.aau.dk> dsstodol@daimi.aau.dk
(David S. Stodolsky) writes:

> I am cancelling the Call for Votes on "Interest Group Surveys"

Good idea.

> ... several persons have complained that the proposal is too hard to read.
> This is in part due to a very compact presentation. That was the result of
> long discussion from a year ago, the point of which was that any voting
> method should be expressible in 25 lines or less.

Not only very hard to read, but downright misleading.  It doesn't say what
it appears to on first reading.  The options for which we were supposed to
vote were complete gobbledegook.

> Third, the way the vote has been handled by the moderator of n.a.n is
> totally unacceptable to me. 

That's o. k.  It doesn't seem to have bothered anyone else.

Charlie Geyer
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu