I can appreciate chapters wanting their vote to be confidential. However, publishing who has voted seems reasonable - and in line with our other elections (where you can see who voted, but not how they voted).
Since before I served on AffCom, I have heard from affiliates how important it is to them to have a voice in WMF Governance. This is a great opportunity for that, and I am a little disappointed the turnout is, so far, rather low. Seeking these opportunities is less than half the effort, actually utilizing them when offered is perhaps even more important (IMHO).
-greg (User:Varnent)
On May 3, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
It is possible to self disclose now - it is a wiki. The problem is that there is no table set up for anyone to do it, and then it is confusing to tell people to report in two places.
We could ask now, "who wants to self-disclose?" then copy those votes into a public space.
The ideal way would be to have a way to note intent to self disclose in the one voting location, then anyone on the chapters wiki could report those votes publicly. I think it is too much to ask to have voting organizations take more than one action to vote. I do not want voting to be complicated.
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:09 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
.. For the next election (in three years) I will propose a change. I want it to be easier for chapters to self-report their votes in a public way, if they choose to do so. Even if the election is closed, enough individual chapters seem to want to self-disclose.
This is a bit odd. I vaguely remember that in previous years that some chapters held discussions with their members online, and publicly published the chapter decision before it was recorded on chapters wiki. Is that no longer possible?
-- John Vandenberg
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