Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Taht <> | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:00:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017 |
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:23 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> >>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list >>> receiving 36 votes. >> >> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one >> vote would have happened ? >> > > In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly. The scanning tool > scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via > /dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for > example, a physical coin toss.
Once upon a time, Heinlein, it was, I think, suggested that a candidate for office be picked entirely randomly from the pool. The lottery concept - the idea that if you ran, you had a small chance of serving no matter the popular vote - encouraged participation.
> > We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that > has ever crossed the cut line. > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > Tech-board-discuss mailing list > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/tech-board-discuss
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