schrieb Chris Cormack am 05.07.2012 20:37:
* Scott Kushner (skushner@mplmain.mtpl.org) wrote:
Yes..let's have a new vote!
Maybe I'll be the only dissenting voice. But by doing a new vote we have to be very careful we aren't just creating a new injustice trying to fix one.
We need to make sure that everyone who has voted knows they have to vote again. So we would have to email them each I would imagine, as well as a new mail to the mailing list.
I'd like to escalate this scenario one step. We have bids from all around the world and internet access is not equally easy to have in all these places. For me it is very unlikely to have no internet access for just one whole day in my day to day life. That might be very different in other places and to be fair we would have to make sure that everybody who voted the first time has internet access to 1) know about the second voting 2) vote It is impossible to just check that unless somebody volunteers to send and answer emails to almost 300 people. That is not going to happen, so we would probably have to delay the whole thing for some arbitrary amount of time until we vote again. Also I am surely not the only one who watched the results since he voted himself, so now that you got an idea of the results you might all just change for some crazy tactical voting scheme. I agree that it is a problem that the situation was unclear. But just starting again is not going to make that any better or fairer, it will raise a lot of questions and problems. - Mirko