Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimit! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Sergey Panov <sipan sipan org>]

I agree that anonymity in this particular case is bad. Believe me,
nobody will come for you in the middle of the night if your vote was for
the loosing side(person).

Publicity enforces responsibility.  

For paranoid types -- if there is any chance the back room deals could
take place, it would be easier to conspire behind that anonymity then
with a public vote.

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 13:36, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks for your response! I absolutely don't want to start flame war 
> here. I raised
> these issues only because I would like to have people think about that.
> 
> >Anonymous voting gives them freedom to vote entirely based on 
> >this information, and not on other peoples perceptions of their vote.
> >  
> >
> I don't think that freedom can come without responsibility. If you make
> descision (you vote) than you need to take responsibility for  this.
> Irresponsible descision makers made a lot of bad things thru human history.
> Some of these descisions might have been different if people making them
> knew that the had had to be responsible for what they are doing. Anonymous
> voting removes responsibility from voter and I feel that this is a bad 
> thing.
> 
> >No system of election is perfect but we have two advantages - people
> >smart enough to build good checks and balances into the system, and an
> >electorate with the broadly common goal of making GNOME successful.
> >
> >At the very worst under anonymous voting, people would just go ahead and
> >vote exactly how they would have done anyway. At best, we all get to
> >vote how we really think.
> >
> I would like to repeat that I don't think that  introducing the 
> anonymous voting today can
> cause any immidiate problems. You are right, currently we have good 
> people in the
> community and good people in charge of elections. However things change and
> we might have  a different situation tomorrow. The proposed change is 
> basicaly
> a change in the political system of GNOME Foundation. Thus I feel that 
> we need
> to be very carefull, think ahead and plan the system to work in changed 
> conditions too.
> 
> 
> Aleksey
> 
> 
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