Re: Official Ballot for GNOME Foundation Referendum



GNOME Foundation Elections wrote:

Dear Brian Nitz,

It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Membership Committee is
announcing the start of the Anonymous Voting Referendum period. Your
vote should be received by Friday, October 8th 2004, 23:59 UTC.

This is your ballot for voting in the referendum.


About the Referendum
====================

In September 2003, the board discussed a possible move toward an
anonymous voting scheme for the annual GNOME Foundation board of
directors elections and brought it to the members on
foundation-list gnome org
You can read this thread here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-September/msg00008.html

After much discussion, it was agreed that there was significant
objection to this so that the GNOME Foundation should hold a referendum
to decide whether future elections should use an anonymous voting
mechanism.

Anonymous voting would allow members to vote for the board of directors
in privacy. While the breakdown of results will be open, the individual who voted for a given list of people will not be named.

Information about the GNOME Foundation is here:

 http://foundation.gnome.org/

Voting instructions
===================

Do you agree with an anonymous voting process for any future GNOME
Foundation elections and referenda?

The choices are:

*YES* or *NO*

At the end of the voting period, all votes will be posted publicly for
verification; this is NOT a secret ballot. At that time, please verify
that your vote was received and counted and alert elections gnome org if
it was not.

Concerns or questions about the voting process should be sent to
elections gnome org  Preliminary results will be announced as soon as
possible after voting closes (most probably on October 11th). Challenges
to these preliminary results should be sent prior to October 22th.

To vote, send an email to vote gnome org (you can just reply to this
mail: the '> ' coming from the reply are okay). Your mail should contain
the following three personalized authentication lines, unmodified:

Member: Brian Nitz
Member Address: brian nitz sun com
Validation Token: b1d23e33f61384e2a006b9ec5b45d8fc

These three lines allow us to verify that you are a foundation member
and that your email came from you.

Try not to include any text in your email other than the three
authentication lines followed by the choice you're voting for.

You shall receive a confirmation for your vote.

Invalid vote
============

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

Your ballot
===========

DO NOT DELETE THIS <<
Member: Brian Nitz
Member Address: brian nitz sun com
Validation Token: b1d23e33f61384e2a006b9ec5b45d8fc
DO NOT DELETE THIS <<

Do you agree with an anonymous voting process for any future GNOME
Foundation elections and referenda?

The choices are:
NO  # keep this line if you want to vote for no, else you should drop it

Deadline
========

Votes will not be accepted after Friday, October 8th 2004, 23:59 UTC, so
make sure you vote before this time.


The GNOME Foundation Election & Membership Committee

 Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>
 Gael Chamoulaud <strider gnome org>
 Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu randomink org>
 Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>
 Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>





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