On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 11:35:06AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > We're currently in the voting period, the discussion/campaigning > > > period is over. Can I please ask everybody to stop talking about > > > things related to the DPL election on this list. > > I'm not sure I understand why. Since when it is _forbidden_ to discuss > > outside the campaign period? > It was always my understanding that this was the case, and as far > as I know people have always stopped discussing after the > campaigning was over. I think this is largely true, but it is not written into the constitution. People's attitudes towards continued discussion on debian-vote during the voting period are probably heavily influenced by their local laws about campaign blackouts before elections in meatspace. While discussion on debian-vote usually wraps up once voting starts, I don't believe there's anything to be enforced here by the Secretary. > I also want to compare this to other elections. As far as I know, > as long as voting booths are open there are no interviews with > politicians, they don't make things like exit polls available and > so on. They only get to persuade people before the booths open. Right, this is not a universal physical law of elections, it's only a local law in some localities :) And I think the closest analogue to a Debian vote is a meatspace election that allows early or by-mail voting. I think there's almost universally some overlap between campaign periods and voting periods in those cases (but ICBW). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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