[Foundation-l] Official Election Notice -- concerns aboutsuffrage requirements

[Philippe Beaudette]

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From: "Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)" <pathoschild at gmail.com>

> Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>>  If there's a need to give people notices, this could also be a good time
>>  to prompt some of the people who took an interest during the last
>>  election in identifying eligible voters and delivering messages to them.
>
> Please don't send out emails. The elections committee will probably
> send out notification by email to all eligible voters (this is under
> discussion right now). The emails will be translated on
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation> with
> other board elections pages.


Please allow me to add my plea to Jesse's to let the election committee 
handle emails.  Please know that it is a major topic of discussion for us 
now and we're weighing the best way to handle it and the timing of it. 
"Email fatigue" is a very real issue and extra emails sent out could reduce 
the likelihood that people would read the official notice sent by email, 
which may contain important voting information, etc.

As always, I think you'll find this committee willing to listen to your 
views and very focused on community input.  If you have ideas, we stand 
ready to listen to them.

Philippe