Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

Mike,

Thanks for your response! I absolutely don't want to start flame war 
here. I raised
these issues only because I would like to have people think about that.

> Anonymous voting gives them freedom to vote entirely based on 
> this information, and not on other peoples perceptions of their vote.
>  
I don't think that freedom can come without responsibility. If you make
descision (you vote) than you need to take responsibility for  this.
Irresponsible descision makers made a lot of bad things thru human history.
Some of these descisions might have been different if people making them
knew that the had had to be responsible for what they are doing. Anonymous
voting removes responsibility from voter and I feel that this is a bad 
thing.

> No system of election is perfect but we have two advantages - people
> smart enough to build good checks and balances into the system, and an
> electorate with the broadly common goal of making GNOME successful.
>
> At the very worst under anonymous voting, people would just go ahead and
> vote exactly how they would have done anyway. At best, we all get to
> vote how we really think.
I would like to repeat that I don't think that  introducing the 
anonymous voting today can
cause any immidiate problems. You are right, currently we have good 
people in the
community and good people in charge of elections. However things change and
we might have  a different situation tomorrow. The proposed change is 
basicaly
a change in the political system of GNOME Foundation. Thus I feel that 
we need
to be very carefull, think ahead and plan the system to work in changed 
conditions too.


Aleksey