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- From: lexicor@cs.bu.edu (Yat Siu)
- Subject: HOW-TO-VOTE
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 07:30:30 -0400 (EDT)
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- Dear list-subscribers
-
- On how-to-vote 2nd and hopefully final draft
- ==============
-
- This is only a pre-liminary suggestion from several list-subscribers, you
- may naturally decide not to vote on a certain issue and find a different
- method of accepting "whatever standard is being discussed".
-
- The justification for voting has come up because it appears that,
- as a natural consequence not everyone will agree with the initial proposal.
- In order to get an issue resolved, this might be necessary. However if most
- list-members feel that there has not been enough discussion to warrant the
- voting of the passing of a certain proposal, then there shall be a vote
- accordingly for that as well.
-
- If the proposer of said proposal wishes to make a vote he should email:
-
- voting-proposal@lexicor.com
-
- to pass the proposal, idea, suggestion for the vote, this voting issue will
- then be sent to the list, it may be a little cumbersome but I believe
- it is the most satisfactory solution.
-
- As usual I am always open to new suggestions, if you don't like this method
- please email me at ysiu@lexicor.com, we can then always find a solution as
- to what may be best.
-
- The voting will then go to:
-
- voting@lexicor.com
-
- with the content of either NO or YES (since we should only have one issue
- voted for in the gem-list it matters not that the server knows what issue
- is voted on) or ABSTAIN (which may conclude that the issue should still be
- discussed, maybe).
-
- The results wil be posted on the list, with the members who voted YES/NO
- and ABSTAIN (with respective email addresses) listed in the results,
- this method is necessary so we can avoid any troubles regarding a complaint
- of possible misconduct, or bad vote count, every subscriber who voted on
- the issue should please double-check if the results where the ones he
- decided for, mistakes can happen! This is the best way to check if he or she
- passed the vote they wanted too.
-
- Please do NOT send to the list for voting, send it to voting@lexicor.com,
- the procedure should be automised and you should receive some kind of
- verification from the server as to your vote.
-
- Only list-subscribers should be eligible to vote, as only they
- theoretically know what is being discussed, and have or have not
- participated in discussing for or against it.
-
- In order to pass a vote for YES or NO there should be at least over 65% of
- subscribers voting in favour or against. If a proposal does not get passed
- with over 65% voting YES or NO then it is an unresolved issue still that
- requires further discussion.
-
- This is still a very preliminary suggestion as to how-to-vote, and I will
- implement it if it is agreeable to you (ilst-members), if you object to it
- please email me at ysiu@lexicor.com (as this is an issue not directly
- related to gem-discussion) and we'll decide on how to get this going to
- everyones satisfaction. If the discussion gets to become so large via email
- about how-to-vote I will be more than willing to discuss it in a private
- mailing list regarding gem-list-admin stuff :)
-
- 2nd July 1994:
-
- The above proposal was slightly changed to 65%, if there are no objections.
- You can now also vote in on vote on several proposals considering it is
- part of the same topic discussed i.e. various issues in the same proposal.
-
- Send in the voting proposal to the above address and I will mail out to the
- list a voting mail.
-
- Voting is completely automised, a lits of who voted YES and who voted NO
- or ABSTAIN will be compiled for everyone (to verify the vote).
-
- I will wait till this Monday for any objections, suggestions or
- disagreements about the voting procedure, if noone objects you can send in
- the proposal and we can vote :) please email me at ysiu@lexicor.com.
-
- Thank you for your time
-
-
- Yat
- -ysiu@lexicor.com
-
-