Monday, November 15, 2004, 8:59:54 AM, Koen wrote:
KM> John P wrote:
Given the above restrictions, it might be easier to just create a poll on
Evite or some free polling service or something.
It'll a private vote to a private e-mail address, and I'll publish the
results with everyone's submitted votes on a webpage so that everyone can
check that their vote was correctly received -- and that I can add ;-)
KM> But this doesn't allow us to check for spurious votes, votes that have
KM> been put in by fictitious persons. Just my 2 cents, you might want to
KM> take that into consideration to quiet the objections from certain others
KM> on this list.
Good point. Also bear in mind that our email addresses are already
public and I've missed suggestions to validate votes at the voting
site. - though John may have this in hand by emailing a unique link or
short voucher validation string (to put in a separate field on the
form) to a voters mailing list address when a user makes themselves known
at the site.
Sending a validation pass to all eligable voters may be helpful, though
I see objections as this will probably lead to people voting who are
not currently on the mailinglist.
KM> William wrote:
That is exactly as I suspected people on the list wanted (and to me an
obvious derivite on that we're currently making call for initial council
to boot-start process) and you refused to listen when I tried to correct
how you were conducting the vote.
KM> Funny how you read in the polls what you suspected to read in the polls.
KM> I think John Pinkerton has a mandate to organise these 'elections',
KM> which I see confirmed in the responses to your poll and the general
KM> opinion on the irc channel for as far as i have been monitoring it the
KM> last week.
I have posted yesterday on my thoughts on a much reduced use of YES/NO polls
and a move towards consensus building and moderator led cuttoffs instead.
I'll also add that I regard my vote as a delegation of my will to
delegates, as such I expect the council to follow the general concensus for
direction but broadly be able to move around conflicting positions and
use their own judgement to get things done.
I fully support John and his hard work to get the election done!
And welcome his acceptance of the working brief produced by several
posters in the last couple of days. The list cannot IMO expect to
have the council or tasked volunteers to always wait for individual
briefs for everything that needs doing.
spf-discuss can help by attempting to see that all discussions produce
an outcome, pro - contra - undecided so that the council have a body
of conclusions and can move forward quickly.
Best regards,
Shane