Re: News Flash: CFV: Test link vote for quiche.fr.eu.blitzed.org

Everything you said is the same as what I think, but I wanted to
point out:

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:52:19PM +0200, John 'Tux' Nielsen wrote:
> There is always atleast 3 options: Yay, Nay, Abstain, so condorcet will 
> do fine in, almost, any case.

In Condorcet method there is always an abstain choice, which doesn't
need to be listed as a separate option.  It is chosen by casting an
empty or abstain vote.  i.e. in a vote where the options are yes/no, the
list of possible votes are:

"YES"
"NO"
"" or "ABSTAIN"

Which is short for:

"I prefer YES with NO being my second choice"
"I prefer NO with YES being my second choice"
"I do not wish to state a preference"

For the purposes of the pairwise contests, the empty abstain choice
loses against everything.

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