[Foundation-l] Don't waste your vote!

[Aphaia]

On 7/1/07, Søren Kiersted <wisewisard at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am writing to ask all of you to think carefully when you vote.

Thank you,

> The board election is very important and many good people are running.

Completely agreed.

> But it is better for Wikipedia's future to keep a bad person off than
> to have the best people on.

In my opinion it is a possible idea you may want to consider when you
choose who you will vote, in the general context, but in this
Election, your argument missed the point, I am afraid.

In the approval voting, you cannot do in the way you proposed below.
If you decide not to vote don't user:GOODCANDIDATE, it make only the
other candidates more successful - both user:BADCANDIDATE and
BETTERCANDIDATE. It doesn't help "keep a bad person off" at all.

And I fully support Jon in this thread. You should vote, since you
could make impact, even small. In this system all voters has the vote
of same weight.

I don't want to proud my effort to organize this Election, if I should
do such publicly, it were better for me to die. However I would like
strongly light up all the other people involved - both  the generous
administrators of Software in the Public Interest and Wikimedians: my
respectable colleagues, translators, informal helpers for organizing
both on meta and the local wikis, people who are willing to help
advertisements both unofficial and official, people who submit their
endorsements, people who noticed the problems to fix, shortly, people
who I am proud of belonging to the same community - Wikimedia. All of
them have helped it out to realize this Election and poured their
energy, wisdom and time.

In my humble opinion, calling for no vote is equal to calling for
waising their time. I might feel saddened, if such thing happens.

> There are three seats open. When you make your three choices if you
> think only to choose the best you risk making an opening for someone
> bad, so '''you must also consider who can win'''.
>
> Look at the endorsements:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements
>
> It is clear that only some have the standing to keep
> a bad person off the board. So even if you know in your heart that
> someone else is better, you should not pick them because if you do
> your vote is WASTED.
>
> If you have already voted and made the error of picking the wrong people you
> can still change your vote but you must do it right away before the
> election closes.
>
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