Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 13/07/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
And note also that 3rd to 6th places were very
close indeed.
Less than 50 votes in it!
Imagine if! 50 votes is just a decent wikiproject's worth of participants.
I hope for future elections WMF (*not* the election committee) will
take more concrete action for its responsibility to inform eligible
voters.
I wouldn't blame either the WMF or the election committee for this. We
aren't running a kindergarten. If eligible voters can't be bothered to
look when an election is advertised in all reasonable places, they get
the result they deserve.
Democratic institutions are not about the responsibilities of the ruling
structure, but about the responsibilities of the citizenry. Do
countries which make voting obligatory get any better results?
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