<div>Dear Luc, dear all,</div>
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<div>Luc wrote :</div>
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<div>Short answer : As mentionned in my initial mail, if there are two candidates that get the same amount of votes in the second round, then the one that got the most in the first round gets selected.</div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Bertrand <br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luc Faubert</b> <<a href="mailto:LFaubert@conceptum.ca">LFaubert@conceptum.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Now I'm not sure I understand Bertrand's proposal. What happens in the case we have the following situation where V are voters and A, B and C the 3 candidates ?</font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mmwg-bounces@wsis-cs.org" target="_blank">mmwg-bounces@wsis-cs.org</a> on behalf of Jacqueline Morris<br><b>
Sent:</b> Thu 2006-02-16 07:14<br><b>To:</b> Vittorio Bertola<span class="q"><br><b>Cc:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mmwg@wsis-cs.org" target="_blank">mmwg@wsis-cs.org</a><br>
</span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mmwg] Important : procedure for runoff election<br></font><br> </div>
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<div>Ok - sorry.<br>Can we have some discussion on this until the 18th, then?<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vittorio Bertola</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vb@bertola.eu.org" target="_blank">vb@bertola.eu.org
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Bertrand de La Chapelle ha scritto:<br>> Dear Jacqueline,<br>><br>> I am a bit sad. I made a very simple and argumeted proposal for this
<br>> second round, suggesting that we allow for two votes instead of one<br>> only. Justification is reiterated below in the copy of my previous mail. <br>><br>> Unfortunately, you are calling for a second round of elections with the
<br>> traditional single vote rule, without any mention of the alternative. I<br>> suppose you and others simply did not notice my mail in the flurry of <br>> exchanges. This is OK . I trust you.<br><br>Actually, I thought that it was so clear that your suggestion was a good
<br>one that it didn't need explicit support, but if it needs some, here is<br>mine.<br>--<br>vb. [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://bertola.eu.org/" target="_blank">
bertola.eu.org</a>]<-----<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://bertola.eu.org/" target="_blank">http://bertola.eu.org/</a> <- Prima o poi...<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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