[governance] Coordinator election in progress

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 09/01/2013, at 9:46 PM, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google <tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my country's electoral system, submitting what is referred to as a "spoilt ballot" (e.g. not ticking any of the candidates. writing in None of the Above, writing in your own candidate, scratching off any or all of the names) counts as you participating in the democratic process, even if it doesn't count as a "vote", per se.

My point exactly, the charter doesn't talk about "participating in the democratic process", it talks about "voting".  But anyway, so far 16 out of 111 respondents have decided to participate in the democratic process without voting, ie. bailed out before choosing a coordinator.  So that's the option that you have if you want to affirm your membership but don't want to vote.  Begin answering, then bail out (without choosing the option to clear your answers) before casting your vote.  I can't add in a NOTA option now, even if I accepted that it was a good idea (which I don't), because the questions can't be changed while the ballot is already in progress.

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