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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Announcing: A survey on newsgroup voting changes
Message-ID: <2814@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 19:02:46 GMT
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In article <17313.25580246@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>This sample vote shows the problem with having write-in votes. How do I say
>that I don't want the guidelines changed?  I can vote against all of the
>specific proposals, but how do I vote against write-in topics?  Not that I
>want to in this case, but how would I do it in a newsgroup vote?

Ah, I thought about this - and the reason I included it is as follows (sorry
for not putting that in my original posting).  MAUVE says that you have to
have 100 more YES than NO votes.  A write-in would also have to have a
larger YES-NO margin than any other.  So, in order to win - it would take
a well publicized campaign.  If the campaign is well publicized, the 
opposition has their chance to vote against it.

I'm not emotionally attaced to write-ins, but if you don't have them then
you HAVE to require the Initiator to include ALL name proposals he 
receives (no matter how silly or close to others he is including).
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