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