Re: [atlarge-discuss] what most members want

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:46:36 +1300, Joop Teernstra
<terastra@terabytz.co.nz> wrote:

>At 06:05 a.m. 2/04/2003, espresso@e-scape.net wrote:
>
>>It's also one of the reasons I believe an e-mail ballot is
>>preferable - one reaches more people fairly quickly and people
>>can respond more easily than by spending time looking at one
>>Web page after another. Some would disagree with me on that
>>but I think it is worth a try and could hardly get a lower
>>response rate than the recent poll.
>
>I hope you are aware of the fact that the voting members in majority think 
>differently.
>Email ballot is not preferred.
>It is too easy to fake responses.

To be precise, the majority of people who took part in an unofficial
poll in your voting booth said they prefer to use the voting booth.
This is hardly surprising.  If the questions had been asked through
the GNSO e-mail ballot system them a majority would have probably said
they prefer that way.

ALso the phrasing of the questions was horrendous and absolutely
leading.  This is something I know about with eight years professional
involvement in writing non leading poll questions.  Describing one
option as "Asking Elizabeth to do it" instead of "Using the GNSO
Secretariat e-mail ballot" meant of course hardly anyone would pick
that one.

The GNSO system is actually very secure.  It is almost fraud proof as
if someone votes from your e-mail address you get details of the vote,
and also you get to see in the results how your vote was recorded so
one can be sure the totals are correct.

DPF
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