On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 07:46:40 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 02-06-2010 08:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 04:11:26 Torsten Veller wrote: > >> * Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org>: > >>> On Monday, May 31, 2010 22:46:50 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > >>>> Here are the details for the Council 201006 elections: > >>>> * nominations: June 5th to 18th > >>>> * voting: June 20th to July 3rd > >>> > >>> funny, this isnt what the council page says at all > >>> > >> | Nominations are allowed from July 1st 0000 UTC to July 31st 2359 UTC > >> | Voting is opened from August 1st 0000 UTC to August 31st 2359 UTC > >> | > >> | (from <http://council.gentoo.org>) > >> > >> The dates shifted because a former council didn't made its full term > >> due to the 50% attendance clause. "The 'one year' is then reset from > >> that point." [0] > > > > yes, that is fairly obvious, but my point was to highlight the existence > > of discrepancies rather than their background > > > >> The length of the periods were shortened in 2008 [1] when we had the > >> early election and last year's election was run within 2+2 weeks too. > > > > as that e-mail notes, the shortened period was due to the forced re-run > > and getting back on track quickly rather than making it the norm. > > personally i dont see what's wrong with running a full month considering > > the weight of the positions. > > ever since we started the 2 + 2 weeks elections, no one has complained > to the election officials about the shortened period.
conversely, no one complained about the longer period either > Furthermore, the > officials started tracking the ballots evolution and in the last 2 years > or so, the majority of votes were casted in the first days of an > election, followed by a week or so with hardly any votes and a small > number of votes casted just before the election was closed. data does help a position > As a member of the elections team and an election official for most > (all?) of the elections in the past 3 years, I think that returning to > the 1 + 1 month election would be a waste of time. still doesnt change the fact that the documentation on the website does not match what is occurring in practice -mike
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