Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimit! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

> I'm not aware of any modern democracy that practices 'open' voting, and
> such voting is typically considered a hallmark of repressive
> pseudo-democracies. More relevantly, I'm not aware of any
> non-governmental bodies that practice open voting either- even my
> elementary school realized that voting in the open was a recipe for peer
> pressure influence.
>
> Given that open voting is so unusual, I think we have to presume that
> closed/anonymous voting is the right thing and the burden of proof must
> be on those advocating closed voting. And I've not seen anything in this
> thread demonstrating why 2,000 years of democratic practice is wrong and
> open voting is correct

Well, I don't think that argument "everyone else is doing (not doing) 
something" is
a good one. You have to make *your* descisions. You need to know about what
other people are doing to have more options but at the end you need to 
make *your*
descision and don't blindly follow the crowd.

<joke>
For example, using your argument I can argue that 90% (I made up this 
number but I don't
think it's too far from reality) of computer users use Windows. Even my 
friend just switched
to Windows and he is saying it's cool! Thus there is no need in GNOME 
and GNOME Foundation
all together :)
</joke>

Aleksey