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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: news.groups,talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: Updated Call for Votes: talk.religion.pagan
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Date: 16 Jan 90 06:25:10 GMT
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In article <23146@ut-emx.UUCP> walt.cc.utexas.edu!olorin@cs.utexas.edu
(Dave Weinstein) writes:
>Due to the upgrade of the Operating System of the network from which
>the vote was being conducted, votes sent between (approximately) January
>2nd and Janary 10th (the deadline) could not get through. Therefore,
>in all fairness to those who attempted to vote during that period, the
>vote has been extended for a comparable amount of time to January 20th, 
>1990. 

When days went by after the end of the voting period for
talk.religion.pagan and nothing was heard from the vote collector, I
became suspicious, particularly since a friend of the collector
continued to solicit votes after the end of the voting period.  Now we
have a unilateral declaration of an extension of the voting period,
obviously because the collector hopes to get more yes votes.  It is
obvious that if there were enough votes at present, then the collector
would not have called for an extension.  It is equally obvious that if
there had been a real problem with vote delivery starting two weeks
ago, as claimed, we would have heard about it before now.

The voting period is over.  Post the tally.  You do not have the right
to redefine the rules to your convenience.  If this vote didn't go to
your liking, then you do have the right to start a new call for
discussion after a waiting period, and if consensus is reached during
the discussion period (a condition that was not met in this case), then
you have the right to issue a new call for votes.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"God must be a Boogie Man." -- Joni Mitchell