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

[Amaury Jacquot <sxpert esitcom org>]

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:30, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> >
> > > It's hard to expect more. The proposition was announced on Friday and not
> > > a lot of people read mail during weekend.
> >
> > And how many people will not reply simply because they agree to the
> > proposal? I think you'll find more people publically disagreeing than
> > agreeing.
>
>
> And many people may not voice their opposition since they will be
> repeatedly asked to state their accusations against the board/election
> committee when in fact they are only objecting to the change since it
> may open the election to potential abuses. 
>
> In fact it was the proponents of the change that brought up the small
> number of replies to that date. Perhaps they should read their own
> response: "It's hard to expect more. The proposition was announced on
> Friday and not a lot of people read mail during weekend."
>
> I would definitely agree though that we'll "find more people publically
> disagreeing than agreeing", especially considering the undesirability of
> the proposal.  ;-)
>
> Andreas

it's me or everyone here is missing the point, turned into US voters 
from florida, or USSR citizens during the stalin era ???

The public outcry against voting machines in the US that give out 
results before the votes is rising, including a fair share of the free 
software community saying that it makes more sense that software in 
voting machines is not available to the general public to peruse and 
read, yet, a free software governance body still relys on what amounts 
to hands-up voting like in the communist countries at the worst period 
of the cold war.

pardon me, but I see something totally wrong in this logic, and I don't 
seem to be alone.

Last year, I was baffled that voting did not take place with secret ballots.

Hell, here's MY counter-proposal :

members of the foundation shall elect their representants each year 
during the guadec conference, and be allowed to access a voting booth 
where they can select the appropriate paper(s) with name in the secrecy 
of said booth (and no, no mailed-in absentee ballots, too bad if you 
can't make it).

It seems low-tech, and WILL require hand counting, but this will insure 
proper democracy in the proceedings of the foundation.

Sincerely

Amaury