Re: Official Ballot for GNOME Foundation Referendum

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:00 +0200, GNOME Foundation Elections wrote:
> Dear JP Rosevear,
> 
> 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: JP Rosevear
> Member Address: jpr ximian com
> Validation Token: f1fe423e8642c01096bf225219c8739d
> 
> 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: JP Rosevear
> Member Address: jpr ximian com
> Validation Token: f1fe423e8642c01096bf225219c8739d
> >> DO NOT DELETE THIS <<
> 
> Do you agree with an anonymous voting process for any future GNOME
> Foundation elections and referenda?
> 
> The choices are: 
> 
> YES # keep this line if you want to vote for yes, else you should drop it

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.