On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:52:04AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I agree with this option split, but that reminds me of a different > procedural note. > > While I recognize and respect the desire to create a comprehensive ballot, > I'm still going to advocate for proposing a GR only with the options that > the person proposing the GR would vote above NOTA, and possibly only your > preferred options. > > There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the people who prefer > your disfavored options may have their own way of wording them that's > slightly different than what you might believe they would want to say, and > it's awkward to update other people's ballot options. The other, somewhat > more technical reason is that I expect this GR to require a 3:1 majority > for some options, and mixing 3:1 and 1:1 majority options on the same GR > can be rather confusing. We may end up needing to do that anyway for this > vote, but I think it would be a good idea to avoid creating the problem > unless someone steps forward and proposes a 1:1 option that they really > want to win. > > (That said, I think there's a big exception, which is that if you've > canvassed a bunch of people who may not want to try to craft their own > ballot options, and developed options to reflect their views, I think > that's a fine approach and a good reason to propose options that aren't > your personal preference.) > > As a side note, I don't remember exactly how this worked before, but under > the current constitutional rules the original GR proposer doesn't have a > special ability to put a bunch of options on the original ballot. You > start with one option, and then you can add more options but they all need > to be sponsored independently. So that also pushes in this direction of > ballot construction.
would it make sense to document this (and more) somewhere as
'guidelines for writting good GR ballots' or some such? I'd guess
the wiki would be a good starting point or maybe somewhere else?
does this exist already
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Holger
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