On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Stephanie Daugherty <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny, secret ballots are actually meant to discourage cabalism, voting for > favors and voter intimidation. > > But yeah, with both lack of turnout and lack of information on candidates > they do tend to make things easy to manipulate. I really don't think that > going to an open ballot is right though because the problems can better be > solved elsewhere and once they are it will provide a valuable safeguard to > maintain secret ballots. > > The nomination process might be one area we can counter the problem. > Nominations can be public and with some degree of support needed to stand > for election the names of editors endorsing a candidate can be very telling > as to what their interests are.
I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was dropped. Yes, we should have open nominations! Of course, then, people have to agree to run.... :P I don't know how we can make the candidates more visible. But if there are questions about the role of the Board, why it's important, what qualities make for a good board member, etc. that are keeping people from voting, please say so. Maybe we can write up some more helpful documentation from the Board side. -- Phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
