-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 15:26 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
Would this same principle of openness apply to the membership votes? Both the election of Board members and any other special voting (such as those for constitutional change)?
I imagine such a suggestion to be apocalyptic to community harmony, with Board members ignoring those who voted against them and favouring those who voted for them, with groups of members bickering amongst each other for voting contrary to their opinions.
Many countries, even with very open democracies, have secret ballots for this very reason, to ensure that the electorate can vote based on their internal, personal views, without worrying about public reprisals for their decisions.
Again, jike the jury analogy, you're conflating the responsibility put on an entire democratic community with the expectations placed on people who self-select to be the public decision makers. Those who have responsibility thrust upon them should have a reasonable expectation of anonymity for their decision. Those who choose to run for office, who _self-select to be more public about their decisions_ have an obigation to share them. If one doesn't want to make their opinions public, for whatever reason, they should not run for office. - -- James Mason <jmason@suse.com> SUSE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEg/RjZ+RraZBnLRN4GzlRiGxEkCMFAluEHSkACgkQGzlRiGxE kCPX3wf/Qn66z1l4K0Lisbu5eS2H/x/fpu6apyIWlnL9dPeSNXuQcnm4HwRB9GI7 MJ5d43iOjLrjqzndj9UpEZ0KHfSgD7pXiozc/91y4jBEQ5pp0djnis3IK7JpeDu0 7/QlH89VQQi1x5CCgM2zBKKaBbRuNstsqnpur+Uk4LJzLD1CDTu/KlZlhFCVMXtI LnWSO8wAM2TB8P0Zea7SwihXP6tWSwHbToZ/FpyNfFc1etNxPXFeFpJRmAdSBYBm 1yrx8u5Unnt7xNEj1ziRBJDAKF5nLBi3FKeIv4yI4+VCv+VR0ToUTZYUMusP7JjZ 1FzAv3m99jbWd6Tq89VdBpemDiTjKQ== =94QA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----