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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Voting period
Message-ID: <531@enea.se>
Date: 6 Dec 89 22:21:11 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Sorry if this has been discussed recently. I've finally taken
myself together and started skipping all articles that doesn't
concern groups I'm interrested in.)

In the call for vote for talk.problems I read:
>The voting period will last for 30 days from Monday, Nov. 20, 1989.  This
>posting will be repeated every two weeks.

And some days ago Rich $alz called for votes to news.lists.ps-maps(?)
with voting lasting from Dec. 1st to New Years Eve.

Wasn't the guidelines changed a little while ago to say 21 days?
  OK, the guidelines says "for at least 21 days", so there is no
violation, but the implication for this is that I could say that
the voting period for comp.lang.cobol is 60 days and with repeating
the call for votes every now and then, I would maybe get my necessary
100 votes difference after 45 days or so. I don't think that would be
considered fair. (The comp.lang.cobol vote is running for 21 days and 
no longer.)

One argument for shortening the voting period was to speed up group
creation, and from that point of view it is only in the group
champion's interest to keep the period short. Another argument, as
I see it, is that shortening the voting period also means sharpening
the creation threshold a little. For instance, the last vote I ran
on rec.music.cd would have failed if I only had been taken votes
for 21 days. (The result was 144-43 and the 100 limit was passed
on day 28 or 29.)

Have I misunderstood all, or am I the only one to follow the
guidelines these days?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Mail me your votes on comp.lang.cobol.