[Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

[Fred Bauder]

> Funny, secret ballots are actually meant to discourage cabalism, voting
> for
> favors and voter intimidation.

Mileage may vary...

In our situation, due to low turnout, secret and anonymous voting and
lack of information, although involved Wikipedians do have some clue, we
are quite vulnerable. I don't think there are any good solutions. I just
know that I am often at a loss with respect to voting.

In situations where I am informed, such as the U.S. presidential
elections I may vote for someone who I know will do exactly the opposite
of what they say they will do, but at least I know what I'm getting.

Fred

>
> But yeah, with both lack of turnout and lack of information on candidates
> they do tend to make things easy to manipulate. I really don't think that
> going to an open ballot is right though because the problems can better
> be
> solved elsewhere and once they are it will provide a valuable safeguard
> to
> maintain secret ballots.
>
> The nomination process might be one area we can counter the problem.
> Nominations can be public and with some degree of support needed to stand
> for election the names of editors endorsing a candidate can be very
> telling
> as to what their interests are.
>
> Sent from my mobile device.
> On Mar 20, 2011 12:16 PM, "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>