On 9/19/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/19/06, Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com wrote:
Anyways, my point was that indirect elections _might_ turn out to have inaccurate results (though that is a rather rare situation), and that it would be especially hard to arrange this on Wikimedia projects.
Indirect election of officials in voluntary organizations with large, geographically diverse membership is common and may actually be the norm.
{{citation needed}}
(...)
Let's also not forget that direct democracy elected Hitler, and yet we
still use it as well.
[[Godwin's Law]] ?