Think Andrew got it right in the 1st half of his Subject Title.
It is evil, dont do it!
Regards,
Michael Young
> Problems with e-voting:
> (1) face to face discussion often explains things better than email, with
> more explanation of what people don't understand, and more "This doesn't
> feel right because of this - what do you reckon?", and less flaming.
>
> (2) email voting encourages the "wrong" sort of voting. Those who don't care
> to make an effort to come along to the gods but want to insert their 2-cents
> worth can. I'm not a 1-person, 1-vote believer. Those who care, listen to
> opinions & put effort in COUNT MORE than others IMO.
>
> (3) Those ignorant of the issues can vote. A vote can be stacked more
> easily, less obviously.
>
> (4) The "consensus" voting that is sometimes used: "7 for, 2 against - OK,
> what about it don't you two like? Can we address that?" is lost.
>
> (5) Those without email or who can not / will not get DQ lists on their
> email accounts would be disenfranchised.
>
> Advantages:
> (1) You would (probably) get a wider range of people voting, which is more
> democratic, representitive, etc. Warm fuzzies, inclusion, etc.
>
> (2) Those who can't make it to the Gods meetings (Church, children, other
> Sunday commitments) can vote.
>
> I think that while we can muster up quorums when there are things to vote on
> (and there haven't been things to vote on lately), we shouldn't transfer to
> e-voting.
>
> If we did go to email voting, I would want the vote to be public - no secret
> ballots.
>
> Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
>
> A while ago, it was suggested that voting could be done on the e-mail list.
> At that time there wasn't a clear mechanism for this but, by using a
> moderated list it could be done. The proposed mechanism is as follows.
>
> A new, moderated, list called dq-vote is set up. Anyone can post to it but
> all the posts are sent to the moderator, usually the current meeting chair
> or the secretary or both. There is no bounce back to anyone on the list.
> When a vote is called, the moderator posts a message to dq stating what is
> to be voted on. Anyone who wishes to vote has to reply to dq-vote with
> their vote. There must be enough separate votes, one per e-mail address,
> that number to the current quorum or more to make the vote count valid.
> Once voting is closed, usually a week after the initial post, then the
> votes are counted and the results posted back to dq. This means that all
> voting is secret ballots.
>
> Comments? Is this feasable?
>
> Keith
>
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