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

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:31:11AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:05, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> > as I said before, it's ok to criticize florida and the like, but we are 
> > unable to apply basic democracy in the free software community ???
> > 
> `Florida' was an issue of te inability to correctly count votes because,
> as I understand, incorrectly functioning equipment being used.
> 
> Public voting, even voting by roll call, is quite common in the
> parliaments of the western democracies.

That's because those are 'representatives'.  A member of parliment, should
not in fact (in theory) have his own 'opinion'.  In theory the member of
parliment is just a representative of his constituency.  As such the
constituency has to know how their 'vote-bot' voted.  Unfortunatley members
of parliment tend to think otherwise.

Note that foundation voters do not represent anyone except themselves.  Being
their own constituency in effect and thus only they really need to know how
they themselves exactly voted.

Also note that parliments tend to use secret ballots for contraversial votes.
Or votes where it is desired that the representatives don't vote on party
lines but according to their beliefs.

George

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George <jirka 5z com>
   The great masses of the people ... will more easily
   fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
                       -- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933