[atlarge-discuss] RE: Polling questions

[<bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

You're right they were "nicely put together".  Thanks!

I am (and have been!) taking all member inputs seriously.  That is why I
wanted the ones from your polls the ballot.  I also intend to use then on
the message to the membership, as examples, and to reduce duplicate inputs.

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon USA
bruce@barelyadequate.info
http://www.barelyadequate.info
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|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
|  Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 5:33 PM
|  To: bruce@barelyadequate.info; david@farrar.com
|  Cc: At Large Panel; Eric Dierker; discuss@icannatlarge.com
|  Subject: Re: Polling questions
|
|
|  At 05:35 p.m. 5/04/2003, bruce@barelyadequate.info wrote:
|  >As part of the upcoming election ballot, I would like to include all the
|  >polling questions you posted to your Polling Booth.  Could you
|  put together
|  >a list, and pass it to David Farrar, CC to the Panel List?  David has
|  >experience building polls and has volunteered to act as a trusted third
|  >party to vett our questions.  I wanted to include yours as well, since
|  >you've apparently keyed in to several areas of interest, at
|  least among the
|  >active members.  Thanks in advance for your help!
|
|  Dear Bruce,
|
|  I have already published all the Polling Questions and their
|  results on the
|  web and I have given the URL to the discuss list.
|
|  Here it is again: www.icannatlarge.com/voting.htm
|  All nicely put together.
|
|  David Farrar has received this URL too.
|
|  As for David Farrar (or Abel Wisman or anyone) being "a trusted third
|  party", please bear in mind that you might want more information to
|  personally be the judge of that and that your rump-panel cannot make
|  appointments.
|  I have no problem with a rump-panel's  honest try to hold
|  elections for the
|  office that the members have said they want.
|  But I have made mistakes with placing trust in the past (Bradley
|  Thornton,
|  Vittorio, the hostmaster of the website and its Forum admin
|  responsible for
|  the "hack" that gave Vittorio the excuse to kill it).
|  Mistakes come back to haunt you later.
|
|  As I have not posting rights to the Panel list, I cannot cc to
|  that list,
|  but I will cc to this to another publicly archived list.
|
|  I appreciate that you are willing to put your shoulders under an
|  election,
|  but I must caution you not to disregard the members' wishes about the
|  structure of what they want to vote people into.
|
|  Especially the first question, if they want a division of power
|  or not, is
|  critical.
|
|  Good luck.
|
|  -joop-
|
|
|


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