Re: Summary of voting irregularities
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:21:51AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> A CFV was issued. Several people waited. And waited. The lists got
> quiet while people waited. If your are the chair of the technical
> committee, then you too have been ignoring your duties. Due process
> has been followed and a vote was called for.
>From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:
due process
n : the administration of justice according to established rules
and principles; based on the principle that a person
cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without
appropriate legal procedures and safeguards [syn: {due
process of law}]
> It seems that it's relatively easy for any small handful of people to
> be unable (or in your case, clearly unwilling) to act according the
> the constitution can kill off any resolution.
It's not necessarily a bad thing for a resolution to die off. The
constitution [the current constitution] specifically allows for this,
in more ways than one.
Debian is primarily about putting together an excellent distribution.
> When are technical committee elections held? Or are there any? AFAIK,
> the current committee was appointed. I think it's time to restructure it
> a bit, in either case.
Why haven't you read what the constitution has to say about this?
--
Raul
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