David, Thank you for the clarification.
Personally, I believe all candidates are very well-qualified and, combined with their enthusiasm about Python and maintaining a top-tier, open-source platform, selecting only a few is incredibly challenging. I want to vote for them all! The PSF is lucky to be able to select from such a group. Kindest, Mark Moretto On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 4:15 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > I am delighted to have just completed my vote for the slate of the 2020 > term PSF Board. As my personal voting strategy, I read all of the > candidate statements, and nominator statements where they were made, and > basically tried to come up with any reason in my mind why a given candidate > was not absolutely my highest preference. That said, even if ALL 4 seats > go to folks I did not vote for, I will remain delighted by the outcome, > since there are so many wonderful candidates running. > > At the completion of selection (in my case, of 11 candidates), I was > presented with this message: > > [you under-voted: you may select up to 26] >> > > I was, in the past, the PSF Voting Administrator, and introduced the use > of Approval Voting as the election method (many years ago now). So I get > what this means, but I am concerned that the phrasing may confuse new > voters, or simply those less wrapped up in election arcana. I do not know > if it is possible now to adjust that phrase slightly. > > ANY number of votes, from zero to 26 is technically valid in the Approval > Voting style. It is a little bit pointless to vote for exactly 0 or > exactly 26, since your vote will not affect the outcome in those cases (but > it is still valid, and registers your participation). But any number of > approvals from 1 to 25 will in some manner legitimately express a > differential preference. > > When you vote, if you see a similar message, do not be alarmed by it. You > are given an opportunity there to adjust your votes, if you wish, but you > may also simply submit your vote with your desired number of selections, > and it will be valid and counted. > > Yours, David... > > --- > The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the > not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse > the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, > become abortifacients against new conceptions. > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Vote mailing list > psf-v...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-vote >
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