Greetings. On 17/08/2020 14.09, Richard Brown wrote:
As the position can't be left vacant, any vote for "None of the above" is probably best interpreted as casting a vote for "Someone else".
I don't see how.
But no other people have volunteered to do the work.
So isn't a blank vote as practical and as meaningful as voting for unicorns or wishing for a free ticket on the first spaceship to Andromeda?
In terms of who gets elected to the position, a blank vote has the same effect as not voting at all. But the semantics are quite different, since the voter has at least attempted to make a positive statement that, at this stage in the process, they are powerless to help effect an outcome to their liking.
If anyone doesn't wish either of these candidates to serve on the Board, I think a more productive use of their energies would be to ask themselves what they could have done to give the community a choice they would have voted for.
That's a false dichotomy -- there's no reason why someone can't do both. Someone who had considered running themselves, or who had attempted (and failed) to recruit candidates they feel are qualified, can still decline to vote for the candidates who actually made it to the ballot. But even if someone didn't do this work in the early stages of the election doesn't mean that they should be pressured to support any one candidate. Regards, Tristan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tristan Miller Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org