Re: changed charter, new elections proposal

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:07:57PM -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> Good point.  How do other people feel about

  the same :-)

> 1- posting daily interim voting results.  The advantage is that it allows
> subsequent voters to tweak their votes in order to achieve a more balanced board.
> The disadvantage is described by Phil below;
> 
> 2- keeping the mailing list archives closed while the election is running.  We can
> easily disable the archives and provide access to it at the end of the elections
> if people prefer that.

  Definitely 2 ... then since the archive will be public at the end:
    - anybody will be able to check the archive content against
      errors
    - anybody will be able to double check the results using the
      archive

This seems the best until now. At W3C we have such email voting 
where the votes are immediately public:
   - cons: there is a "follower" effect, if someone well know voted
           other may tend to vote accordingly to this vote
   - pros: when there isn't that many enthusiam among the voters,
           having votes publics sometimes allow to get more votes
	   it's a side effect of the "follower" effect

Daniel

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