On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:30:54AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Anthony Towns: > > For concreteness, here's what I think we should be doing: > > > I like. One minor nit: > > > 1. Each voter's ballot ranks the options being voted on. Not > > all options need be ranked. > > Giving the same rank to more than one option is permitted. I think Anthony may be trying to leave that to the discretion of the person preparing the ballot (the Project Secretary). If so, I disagree with that. I think we should mandate that ballots must permit appication of the same rank to multiple options. > > "RATIONALE": Voters should rank the options they prefer in the > > order that they prefer them, ranking the default option higher > > than any options they believe are unacceptable. If they believe > > the current situation is superior to any of the proposed changes, > > they should propose or second an amendment that simply preserves > > the status-quo, and only rank options they find unacceptable below > > the default option. > > > s/amendment/option/ ? No, voters propose General Resolutions and amendments thereto, not ballot options per se. It is the job of the Project Secretary to prepare the ballot. -- G. Branden Robinson | The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux | Baptist: It ain't a sin if you branden@debian.org | don't get caught. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Anthony Davidson
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