[csw-maintainers] GPG Key Vote

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>...

> The vote choices will still be one per board position with a fourth
> question asking whether the key should be held in escrow or directly.
>
> This vote is for the _current_ gpg key.  At camp, we came up with a
> much better solution to this whole thing but it will take time to
> implement properly, so it's still useful to decide on the handling of
> the current asset.
>
> Phil: You've got 24 hours to edit the wiki page.  We're not doing a
>      point/rebuttal system though.  Keep it to bullet points.


Thank you. Not quite sure what you meant about "not doing a
point/rebuttal system", but I tried to basically stick to the format
you already laid out, and kept it brief.
Strictly speaking, I think there are some factual errors in what you
wrote, but since what I wrote mostly counterbalances them.. and in the
interest of showing I can actually let some things slide :) I am okay
with the writeup as it now stands.


> [1] http://wiki.opencsw.org/vote-gpgkey


A comment on what you also wrote:

>.  This
> is certainly different than what I've ever experienced and I'm sure
> other non-American folks may find it peculiar too (maybe not?).  I
> still find this a bit odd as it's likely having a partisan party in
> the booth with you, I don't mind a pro/con list as long as it's not
> directly in the ballot text.
>
> So, the ballotbin vote will be binary choices with 'no frills'
> descriptions.  The write up will be on a wiki page[1] and can list
> pros/cons.  It will be linked from the ballotbin vote but not directly
> included.

I'm not understanding your objection to putting the writeup directly
in the ballotbin writeup. It's fairly short.

I gather this is not what you are used to seeing, in your
local/state/government elections; but that venue has a hinderance on
it, that we do not have. What you see there, is probably for ease of
tallying, to have one small "voting sheet" or whatever, handed around
for vote tallying. It is expected to have multiple issues voted on, in
one sheet. so space is at a premium?

In contrast, our ballot is a "one issue" ballot. There's no real bonus
to exclude it.. and technically, it is less efficient/makes the voter
do more work, to have them click to a separate page, and then come
back to "the voting page".