[Foundation-l] Election rules modification regarding suffrage issues raised on this list

[Kwan Ting Chan]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 23:24 +0300, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> Now I am very confused. Why was this decision "very important"?

The "important" in the statement was qualifying "current issue", i.e.
Voting for someone to sit on the Board for the following year being an
important issue.

> What is the vital interest in "ensuring" that long time inactive
> editors don't vote? What is the threat scenario there?

In my opinion, I would prefer the decision to elect whoever to sit on
the Board to have come from active community members, rather than
someone who might have been inactive / left for years suddenly coming
back purely to vote for/against someone they like/hate. The decision for
such a criteria by the committee reflected such viewpoints by its
members.

KTC

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