Date: 2004-05-12T11:34:38 Editor: BenHyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wiki: Incubator Wiki Page: BoardElectionVoteCounting URL: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BoardElectionVoteCounting
Add some notes about the logistics of actual voting. Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -21,3 +21,7 @@ This means you can vote for Mr. Wonderful along with everybody else and after he's elected there is a reasonable chance your ballot will live on to help elect a candidate other than your first preference. This voting architecture is excellent for helping to break up the tendency of elected bodies to settle into one or two power blocks; at it's also helpful for breaking up the power of incumbents to attract strategic voters. Its downside is that you can end up with a board with nine members all of whom were elected by very narrow constituencies to which they are extremely loyal - that can make it hard to reach any consensus. + +---- + +Logistics. When time comes for the vote emails are sent to each of the voters. Actual votes are submitted from your apache.org account using a command line tool. That tool takes a token that was provided with the email. You may vote more than once with the same token, but only the last vote counts. Using a command line tools allows us to leverage ssh authentication. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
