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I for one am going to be interviewing each candidate before I cast my vote. |
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I have only one voice but I'm going to do my best to make it count. |
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How seriously though do people ask questions of the candidates before |
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voting? How much is it a popularity contest and how much is it actual |
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research on who would be best for the job? |
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:29 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> On 16/04/18 23:23, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Thode |
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>> <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Just because you lose does not mean you should stop trying. |
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>> That wasn't my point but I guess I wasn't clear enough. Our foundation |
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>> and council elections work sub-optimally, to put it mildly. It's no |
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>> secret they are beauty contests where the wrong persons get elected |
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>> for the wrong reasons. You and three others are exceptions to that |
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>> rule over more than a decade on both trustees and council. That's not |
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>> much. |
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>> As for trying again, the one and only reason I ran was that I had been |
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>> asked by somebody whom I trust a lot. The latter is what I'm pretty |
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>> sure won't happen again. Or rather, I hope it doesn't. |
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> I suspect the only way this will change, is for a forced all-dev and/or |
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> all-foundation-member vote, either of 'no confidence' in the council, or |
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> some equivalent there-of. If there isn't a decent quorum, any ballot is |
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> likely to be ineffective, as the usual 6% will do their usual and the |
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> status-quo is once again ratified de-facto. |
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