[EM] Debian election results are in

[Rob Lanphier]

The Debian Project (http://debian.org) holds yearly elections using 
Condorcet's method to choose the project leader.  The results of this 
year's election are in:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001

It was a close election between the top three candidates  and as it 
turns out, the winner only had the third highest total of first place 
votes.  This makes for some interesting election results to analyze.

The election has been reported on Slashdot as well:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/053219&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=90

Among the comments:  "Congratulations to the winner of an 
incomprehensible voting system."

If this election had a cycle, it'd be hard to argue with this comment.  
However, this had a single pairwise winner...the results were close but 
easily explained.  Of course, the author is clearly just being glib in 
general (read the rest of his comment to see why).  Still, there are 
those who are going to start pondering why the winner won.

Rob