Re: [ga] 24 hours from now...

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Joop,

the lack of voting in either voting booths has more to do with interface
design than desire to leave e-mail to go some place to vote.

I suggest creating a e-mail based voting technology rather than a web
based one, you'll probably get more participation.

regards,

-rick

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 10:52 9/12/99 -0800, Mark C. Langston wrote:
> 
> >If for no other reason, I call upon the NC to either let the GA 
> >elect its own chair, or leave us chairless.  It's obvious that
> >nobody in the GA cares about this position or this process, or that
> >they have become so disheartened and disenchanted by the whole thing
> >they are refusing to participate.
> >
> 
> Even the informal poll found no more than 6 people so far interested enough
> to vote, even though the polling site is open to all and requires no password.
> 
> Result: 3 votes for Roberto Gaetano, 2 for Mark Langston and 1 for Harald
> Alvestrand.
> 
> The "even more informal poll" wich included the names of Mr Williams and Mr
> Baptista and a disapproval option to make it more interesting, did not
> attract more than 7 voters either. (No approvals from the 98K INEG
> membership :-))
> 
> If this GA would care to elect its own chair, wouldn't you expect that they
> would visit a polling booth that gave them the opportunity to do so?
> 
> Disenchanted and disheartened is the right choice of words. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --joop teernstra, IDNO bootstrap
> 
> --Make good use of any voting rights and opportunities--
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/
>