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Re: prototype questions for developer vote

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Please do not reply to the questions yet, DO NOT VOTE YET, but suggest
> additional questions. 

Q.    A. Office bearers who resign should be allowed to change their
         mind as often as they wish.

      B. Resignation is final (but does not mean that they're out of
         the project, just that they've resigned their office)

      C. If anyone attempts to resign, fit them with slave-collar and
         chains.

Rationale: resignation should be a last-resort, "i can't stand it any more"
thing.  If an office-bearer knows that resignation is final then they will
be reluctant to do it unless they really mean it.


Also, all questions SHOULD have an "abstain" option. Some web-browsers
(in particular, netscape) don't let you uncheck a radio-button -
once you've picked one in a group, you can't change your mind before
submitting and unselect them all...so have an explicit "I don't care"
option.

This should be the default too, otherwise whoever creates the form
can influence the outcome by steering the donkey-vote(*) to their
preferences.


(*) voting is compulsory here in australia(**). people who just vote "1,
2, 3, 4, 5" in the order listed on the ballot are referred to as donkey
voters. by law, ballots are printed randomly in order to minimise the
harmful effect of donkey voting.

(**) this is one of the reasons why australia is a much more free
country than America. representative style democracy only works if
everyone votes. it's not as good as a real participatory democracy
would be, but it's better than optional voting where the already
disenfranchised don't even bother because they know that it's not going
to make any difference at all.

craig

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