[conlang_learners] Voting procedure wiki page

[Tony Harris]

For what it's worth, I'm one of the late joiners.  I probably will not 
vote, as my reason for joining was that I heard my own conlang, Alurhsa, 
as well as Jim Hopkins' Itlani which I know fairly well, were 
candidates.  If either of those is chosen, I'll seek to be as much help 
to everyone as I can, but if another is chosen I most likely won't join 
the learning community just because I have so much going on anyway.  
Hence why I don't want to vote as it seems inappropriate for me to 
affect the result.

Olivier Simon wrote:
> Bun meredas Padraic !
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> Yea, that makes sense. Considering the fact that the voting period 
> will stretch between 1° and 8 september (so, a one week span), it is 
> necessary to freeze the "citizenry" ("electorate" I prefer) 
> immediately, or at last before the opening of the voting period. ("the 
> critical date" as jurists say). If the electoral membership can still 
> vary within the voting operations, it gives the impression that 
> someone seeks to manipulate the ballot...
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> Olivier
> http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/
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> --- On *Sat, 8/29/09, Padraic Brown /<elemtilas at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
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>     From: Padraic Brown <elemtilas at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] Voting procedure wiki page
>     To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
>     Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 4:31 AM
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>     -- On Sat, 8/29/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com
>     <http://us.mc574.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jimhenry1973@gmail.com>>
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>     > Something we haven't discussed enough, perhaps, is voting
>     > eligibility.
>     >  Do we want to limit the voting to people who are members
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>     > conlang_learners mailing list or were members of the list
>     > before a
>     > certain date?  If so, I can supply a list of names and
>     > email addresses to the vote counters.
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>     For all practical purposes, the "citizenry" concerned with this
>     particular vote is restricted to people who are reading this list.
>     It makes sense to define eligibility in terms of list membership;
>     but then not make a big deal out of it, because how many people
>     nòt reading the list even know what's going on here? I do think it
>     makes sense for you to supply the vote counters the list of group
>     subscribers so they can become familiar with how many folks are
>     subscribed and who they are. If all of a sudden 400 ballots come
>     pouring in, they'll know something is fishy. And they'll know
>     which of those 400 ballots are "legit".
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>     > Jim Henry
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