Off topic, but when I got a reference to a somewhat NetBSD-affiliated
person from a completely different source on a topic which might
be of great interest to those of us in the US
I had to forward it on. . . 

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:35:31 -0800
Subject: Yes, a dissertation on voting methods...

For those of you interested in the intricacies of voting methods, I found 
this on the net.  It has a good summary of voting methodologies at the 
beginning.  It popped up when I did a google search on "chad election".


http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/pubs/diss/book.html