Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

[Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:25:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Neil McGovern <neil@halon.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > Yes, it would. And so would expecting people to read the mail. Given
> > that there were a number (28?) sent before voting peoriod started, I'm
> > not convinced that people will actually do that. I'll be looking at
> > automating how the announcements are sent out in future to help this.
> 
> This is a very annoying workflow that makes things harder for voters.
> Can't we stop doing this?  I'd much rather see the ballot sent exactly
> when the vote is open, so that people can simply reply to it immediately
> and vote.  I'm sure I'm not the only person whose mail workflow is not
> well-designed for keeping around a message that I need to reply to at some
> set point in the future but can't reply to immediately.
> 

Yes, hence my last sentence above :)

Neil
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