Re: [tclug-list] Voting off List

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:17:04PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > What a bizarre system for voting -- spam the list with votes.
>
> Yet it's very public, isn't it? You don't have to worry about someone
> "stuffing the ballot," since ever vote is right there in the list
> archive. As such, there is no official declaration of procedure for
> these things. We have no constitution, we are not a not-for-profit.
> You'll simply have to work with what is reasonable to expect from a
> loosely organized group of individuals, the definition of which is
> membership on the list and/or attendance to TCLUG events.
>
> In any case, if you all prefer to keep ballots off list, send them to
> me at chewie-yahoovote@wookimus.net. That is, if you trust me. ;-)
> I've added a procmail recipe to simply shunt all emails to that
> address to a single folder.
>
> I agree with Florian's assertion that 80 votes is the quorum. Because
> of the 4th of July holiday next week, voting should probably end at
> 11:59:00 on July 7th, 2006.
>
> Replace the space between the brackets with a single "X". Please vote
> so quorum of 80 votes is reached, even if you only choose option C.
>
> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> [X] Option A: Lift the Yahoo! ban
> [ ] Option B: Do not Lift the Yahoo! ban
> [ ] Option C: None of the above
> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>
> These people do not need to send in a vote, as it is already recorded:
>
> Option A: [9]
> John T. Hoffoss, Chad Walstrom, Nick Thompson, Chuck Cole,
> Dan Armbrust, Jonathon Jongsma, Justin Kremer, Mike Miller,
> Joseph Key
>
> Option B: [2]
> Spencer Butler, Munir Nassar (Ein)
>
> Option C: [1]
> Isaac Atilano
>
> Votes Needed for Quorum: 68
> --
> Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/
> assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
>
>
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