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Re:Self-Enforcing Protocols by pkulak on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @01:59PM (#755847)
"an open show of hands in a room -- one that everyone in the room can count for himself -- is self-enforcing"

This is his second example (where you can complain to someone else if it's unfair) which he just got done saying _wasn't_ self-enforcing. Sure I can count for myself, but if the official number is not my own, I need a third party.

Re:Self-Enforcing Protocols by sketerpot on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @09:26PM (#757025)
Plus you can vote for more than one candidate. This is a good thing, I think -- approval voting is a very well-behaved voting system -- but perhaps not what people were trying to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting