<div dir="auto">Your message indicates that voting closed while nominations were still in order. Something’s off. </div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 23:45 Chris Benham <<a href="mailto:cbenhamau@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">cbenhamau@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
Have the nominations closed? </blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, at 5:14:59 GMT, April 12th.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto">Not that I want to nominate another method.<br>
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There has been very little electioneering, with I think most of the <br>
nominated methods not even being mentioned.<br>
</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, we weren’t given any information on most of the nominees. People should have told the advantages/merits of their nominees.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
Some haven't even been explained let alone discussed or promoted.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
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When does voting close?<br>
</blockquote><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But given the absence of explanation & advocacy for the unfamiliar methods, maybe the month-long voting-period is a good thing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My duration specifications were meant as default suggestions, changeable by moving for a vote. …at any time, of course.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
Chris Benham<br>
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