In the humble opinion of this vulture, there are too many propositions, with too much overlap between them. We suspect this makes a three-to-one majority for the first very unlikely. To make it easier to arrive at a decision, we would have wanted to see the positions consolidated to fewer, clearer, mutually exclusive positions.

Usually I like the register's reporting, but here the author misses a key point: Debian's voting system is made to specifically allow very similar proposals to not harm each other via vote splitting. Every eligible voter gets a ballot where they can rank the choices, and there's a complex clusterfuck of a formula that figures out which choice would win against all others in a one-to-one contest. It's been a while since I read up on it (and even then I wasn't able to fully understand it), but the Debian project has all the details on their site.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing