Terri, Why didn't you raise your problem before the voting was closed? I think extending the ballot before the result is published due to technical problem is reasonable. Now, I would think it doesn't give a good handling on the democratic voting process.
-Ghee On 03/25/09 16:28, Terri Molini wrote: > I wonder how many other people like me found they couldn't vote > despite registering keys? I bet there were people disenfranchised by > that key system, I saw other e-mails to that effect. > > I think as a community we need to understand whether there was > interest in the election or if the application kept folks from casting > their ballots before folks get wound up about the numbers. > > I would like to suggest something regarding the casting of ballots for > the recent election and changes to the constitution. > > The system allows the administrator to see whether or not a core > contributor registered a key within the voting time frame. > > We should then try to determine if a core contributor submitted a key > and tried to vote and could not or if they changed their mind about > casting a vote (unlikely). If it is that they could not cast their > ballots due to the system then that needs to be addressed. Perhaps > extending the time to those persons and offer a less complex way to vote. > > In summary, I am suggestion a re-ballot (extend it for 7 days) for > core contributors that could not submit their ballots. > > ### > -- > Terri Molini > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Global Communications, Open Source > +1 (408) 404-4976 office > +1 (408) 406-9021 mobile > AIM: tmolini > > 'The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor and a bad memory.' > > Registration for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo is now open! > April 20-23, 2009, Santa Clara, California. www.mysqlconf.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > core-contrib-discuss mailing list > core-contrib-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/core-contrib-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20090325/77c97fed/attachment.html>
