Re: About the voting rules

[Andy Tai <atai atai org>]

You definitely have good points. Maybe your comments
can be incorporated into the election next year; for
this year the rules should not be changed at this late
time in the election...

Andy


--- Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Thank you to the election committee for running the
> election. I'm just
> now getting around to voting so I came across the
> rules. Here there are:
>
> Your ballot will be considered invalid if one of
> these conditions
> > has been violated:
> > * there is no member e-mail address
> > * the member e-mail address is not the e-mail
> address this ballot was
> > sent to
> > * there is no validation token
> > * the validation token is not valid
> > * there are too many candidates chosen (more than
> 11)
> > * there is no candidate chosen
> > * there is a duplicate vote for a candidate
>
> The last two are problematic. I don't think either
> should invalidate a
> ballot.
>
> 1) voting for no one actually has an important
> function, one very
> different from not voting. There is no reason this
> should invalidate a
> ballot. The ballot should be added to the total
> tally and no votes cast.
>
> 2) duplicate names should not prevent the ballot
> from working, they are
> merely useless. These votes should simply be
> discarde, not the ballot
> itself.
>
> I'm sure the committee has thought about this and
> maybe decided the
> extra effort (parsing, cross-checking or whatever)
> outweighed the
> benefits of accepting these ballots. Still in a
> perfect foundation,
> these rules would be different.
>
> all the best,
> adrian
>
>
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