Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original point was that people who do not actually exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set -- and need to be looked at to see if they are indeed inactive. Having

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:11:23 +, Matthew Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In which case, there should be a procedure for abstaining? Simple. Just vote all candidates at 1 -- and put the default option at 5 (v5). Personally, I've yet to notice any of the DPLs whilst I've

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original point was that people who do not actually exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set -- and need to be

English (was Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year)

2003-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Here is how I undesrtanfd the Shall/Will distinction: Shall is used to express the simple future for first person I and we, as in Shall we meet by the river? Will would be used in the simple future for all other persons. Using will in the

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Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:13:33 +0100 (CET), Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava: Why is it harsh? I certainly did not mean it to be. It was meant to be a statement of fact. Okay, the use of shall instead of will just sounded very weird to me. But then again,

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original point was that people who do not actually exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set -- and need to be looked at to see if they are indeed inactive. Having

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original point was that people who do not actually exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set -- and need to be

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:37:43AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:11:23 +, Matthew Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In which case, there should be a procedure for abstaining? Simple. Just vote all candidates at 1 -- and put the default option at 5

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Mario Lang
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0600 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My original point was that people who do not actually exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set -- and need to be looked at to see if they are

Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:02, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:37:43AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Simple. Just vote all candidates at 1 -- and put the default option at 5 (v5). would not 2 be enough (v2) ? That makes no difference whatsoever. --

English (was Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year)

2003-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Here is how I undesrtanfd the Shall/Will distinction: Shall is used to express the simple future for first person I and we, as in Shall we meet by the river? Will would be used in the simple future for all other persons. Using will in the

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2003-03-25 Thread Amado Whittaker
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Re: integrity of elections

2003-03-25 Thread Glenn McGrath
And why do you think this should be allowed? Because they are a part of the debian community, and probably have a reasonable understanding of debian politics. I think we should investigate why they are so long in the queue, but giving them voting rights per se is not a good idea IMHO, as