Hi Gunnar, On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:47 PM Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > This year I think I will break my usual > practice, and vote a certain DPL candidate below NotA :-\
With that statement, you potentially committed two infractions—depending on where you live. First, revealing a vote is widely looked down upon. Why would you do it other than to sway people who have not made up their minds? It's why some folks desire to have secret votes. Your conduct might also be illegal in some places. [1] Second, you expressed a preference among candidates while holding public office. [2] That is a big gray area, but restrictions exist in the US [3] and, to some extent, in Germany. [4] On a Debian list, you are an office holder with expanded authorities. Would it not be better to act moderately compared to membership, on average? Kind regards, Felix Lechner [1] https://www.vox.com/21523858/ballot-selfies-state-rules [2] https://www.debian.org/intro/organization [3] for example on the federal level, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act [4] in German, https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/650184/57e48f43ca79df7039003aff9850f8c9/WD-6-045-19-pdf-data.pdf
