Subj : Re: 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To   : Dan Clough
From : Shaun Buzza
Date : Sat Mar 12 2022 12:47 pm

 DC>  SB> This has been made clear by more than one person. At this point,
 DC>  SB> though, I am wondering why this is so. I strongly feel that it
 DC>  SB> *should* be a majority decision due to the nature of the election
 DC>  SB> in question. This is simply personal opinion.
 DC> 
 DC> If you disregard abstentions, it is a majority decision.  More yes's 
 DC> than no's means you get in.  I think the voter should have to pick one 
 DC> or the other, and not be allowed to abstain from any candidate(s).

Effectively, that's the current vote. The voter is *not* allowed to abstain,
if any abstention is not counted toward the total.

 DC> I also wonder how it was decided that only RC's can vote for these 
 DC> candidates.  Why not NC's also.  Why not the peasant-class of 
 DC> nodelisted sysops?  I saw somewhere in this conversation recently (I 
 DC> think) that it was deemed that only RC's would have the requisite 
 DC> intelligence/knowledge to know if a particular candidate was qualified 
 DC> for such a job.  I disagree with that assumption very strongly.

I, too, remember someone saying that recently. Personally, I cannot disagree
with that assumption, as I fit the description a little too well. However, in
theory, the RC votes are supposed to be an aggregate of all the votes in the
controller's region, in a similar fashion to how a House Representative is
supposed to (but doesn't) vote.

 DC> Oh well.  I shall go back to my peasantly duties now.

Yes, let's both be pleasant peasants! (o_-)

McDoob
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