Re: Bundled votes and the secretary
On Sun, Dec 14 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:08:01PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:38:34AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> > if he saw this mail and chose not to acknowledge the arguments,
>> > then he is behaving in a wholly improper manner with regard to this
>> > vote, and frankly I see no reason that we as a project should even
>> > honor the outcome of a vote on this ballot as presented.
>
>> These two statements I find most alarming.
>
>> As long as there is no clear and unambiguous violation of the
>> constitution in the Secretary's actions,
>
> As a matter of fact, there's that too. This ballot has been assembled
> in contravention of the Standard Resolution Procedure, which requires
> that new ballot options be proposed as formal *amendments* to an
> outstanding GR proposal in order to appear on the same ballot. Manoj
> has overstepped his authority in order to group separately proposed
> resolutions about orthogonal questions on a single ballot, over the
> explicit objections of the proposer/seconders. This is not a power
> granted to the secretary under A.2.
All related options are placed on the ballot, no? I am working
on the basis that any proposal, and all related proposals that may
affect the action to be taken, must be on the ballot.
None of the amendments in recent votes take the formal form (I
amend foo, and replace all the words in the proposal with the words
below). Amendments (made formal by seconds) just propose what the
alternate handling being proposed, and related proposals go on the
ballot. This is how the "related amendment" has been handled in
practice over the last several years.
>> and absent a valid GR stating otherwise, the vote must be presumed to be
>> constitutionally valid.
>
> Ah, and how are we meant to get a valid GR when the secretary is actively
> tampering with the GR process?
>
> Recognizing the validity of the vote is not a "must". The alternative is
> that we end up in a state of constitutional crisis. That's unfortunate, but
> it's also unfortunate that our Secretary is failing to act in a manner that
> safeguards the integrity of that office.
In the interest of keeping the discussion civil, I shall not
respond to this.
manoj
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