That phrase, I believe, is part of Helios' default templates which the administrator can not change and has been there for the last several years in which we've used Helios.
I agree that it is possibly confusing, but I suspect Ben would be willing to adjust it if you're willing to open an issue and have a dialogue there. Signed, A fellow former administrator On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:14 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > I am delighted to have just completed my vote for the slate of the 2020 term > PSF Board. As my personal voting strategy, I read all of the candidate > statements, and nominator statements where they were made, and basically > tried to come up with any reason in my mind why a given candidate was not > absolutely my highest preference. That said, even if ALL 4 seats go to folks > I did not vote for, I will remain delighted by the outcome, since there are > so many wonderful candidates running. > > At the completion of selection (in my case, of 11 candidates), I was > presented with this message: > >> [you under-voted: you may select up to 26] > > > I was, in the past, the PSF Voting Administrator, and introduced the use of > Approval Voting as the election method (many years ago now). So I get what > this means, but I am concerned that the phrasing may confuse new voters, or > simply those less wrapped up in election arcana. I do not know if it is > possible now to adjust that phrase slightly. > > ANY number of votes, from zero to 26 is technically valid in the Approval > Voting style. It is a little bit pointless to vote for exactly 0 or exactly > 26, since your vote will not affect the outcome in those cases (but it is > still valid, and registers your participation). But any number of approvals > from 1 to 25 will in some manner legitimately express a differential > preference. > > When you vote, if you see a similar message, do not be alarmed by it. You > are given an opportunity there to adjust your votes, if you wish, but you may > also simply submit your vote with your desired number of selections, and it > will be valid and counted. > > Yours, David... > > --- > The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the > not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse > the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, > become abortifacients against new conceptions. > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Vote mailing list > psf-v...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-vote _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
