[EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upcoming enactment-elections

[Michael Garman]

Your message indicates that voting closed while nominations were still in
order. Something’s off.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 23:45 Chris Benham <cbenhamau at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>> Have the nominations closed?
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> Yes, at 5:14:59 GMT, April 12th.
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> Not that I want to nominate another method.
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>> There has been very little electioneering, with I think most of the
>> nominated methods not even being mentioned.
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> Yes, we weren’t given any information on most of the nominees. People
> should have told the advantages/merits of their nominees.
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>> Some haven't even been explained let alone discussed or promoted.
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> Exactly. That’s why I ranked most of them all together at the same
> rank-position. The ones I know about & like ranked in order of merit, then
> the ones that I don’t know equal-ranked, & then, below them, the ones I
> know that I don’t like. Pluraity was at bottom, as everyone agrees, & so
> there was no reason to rank it.
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>> When does voting close?
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> It closed at 5:14:59 GMT, April 11th. The moment nominations ended, the
> voting-period started. I voted about 1 minute after the start of the voting
> period.
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> But, I initially specified a month-long voting period. If that’s too long
> people can move to shorten it. But the long voting period could allow some
> time for explanation of methods & their special merits.
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> Shall we say that votes can be changed throughout the month-long
> voting-period? If anyone moves to shorten it, we could discuss that. If it
> were moved (& seconded?), then maybe people would like to choose the
> duration that is the median of the voted suggestions.
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> But given the absence of explanation & advocacy for the unfamiliar
> methods, maybe the month-long voting-period is a good thing.
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> My duration specifications were meant as default suggestions, changeable
> by moving for a vote. …at any time, of course.
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>> Chris Benham
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