On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 07:45 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> [08-17-20 07:28]:
Greetings.
On 17/08/2020 04.22, Ish Sookun wrote:
Details about the election are published here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
I note that there is no explicit option on the ballot for "None of the above", though it does seem to be possible to cast a ballot with none of the names selected. Will such ballots be counted and reported as such?
In the present case, two individuals opting for one position, what possible use is a null vote or the statistics of one?
Indeed, that's a great question. I find the suggestion for a null vote rather peculiar. 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". (Alternative interpretations like "objecting for the sake of objecting" would be a little too cynical even for me.) 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? 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. - Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org