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[top-politics] Continuous voting
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At 04:27 AM 11/1/2006, echarp wrote:
>If I can try to chime in about continuous voting… > >It just means that a vote is open for a long time. Generally it also >implies that you can vote as many times as you want, the last vote >overrides the previous ones.
Okay, then. A poll can — and should, for an internet meeting — be open for a “long time.” How long? That’s for the majority to determine, whether through rules or through direct decision, including a decision to suspend the rules. Some of these actions might properly require supermajority.
But, after a certain lapse of time when a question has been called
- that that process should exist, it should not be merely a matter that a majority has come to support a motion, for many may not vote until they know that debate is essentially over, good idea, eh? (it’s Robert’s Rules) -then a majority vote to do so should be able to close a vote.I have been assuming that FA/DP polls would indeed be open polls, with the present status of the vote open, including voter identities, particularly so that you can tell how your proxy voted, if it interests you. If you don’t like it, you can then simply vote yourself. And, if the problem is bad enough, go change your proxy assignment.
The idea is to actually attract as many people as possible to vote, whether directly or indirectly. Most will vote on most issues indirectly, by simply don’t nothing. If they have a proxy assigned.
A group may send a nagging email to members who have not voted and they do not have a vote cast by proxy, for whatever reason. The member can ignore the mail, and can even shut these notices off. But the default is on. A member who has a functional proxy structure to which he belongs should very rarely receive such a mail, and would presumably want to know if the structure fails.
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> >If I can try to chime in about continuous voting… > > > >It just means that a vote is open for a long time. Generally it also > >implies that you can vote as many times as you want, the last vote > >overrides the previous ones. > > Okay, then. A poll can — and should, for an internet meeting — be > open for a “long time.” How long? That’s for the majority to > determine, whether through rules or through direct decision, > including a decision to suspend the rules. Some of these actions > might properly require supermajority.
There is no need to close a poll.
One great consequence to that, citizen can change their mind!
> But, after a certain lapse of time when a question has been called
- > that that process should exist, it should not be merely a matter that > a majority has come to support a motion, for many may not vote until > they know that debate is essentially over, good idea, eh? (it’s > Robert’s Rules) -then a majority vote to do so should be able to > close a vote.Again, no need to close it. Whether the debate is mostly over or not is another matter. It could also reopen for whatever reason.
echarp – http://leparlement.org/irc
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