On 9-Nov-08, at 12:17 AM, Alan Bawden wrote: > Now I confess I'm still in the dark about how exactly such a > combined vote > could work in a way that appears to be fair. So let me ask this: is > there > any way in which separate registration and voting seem -unfair-? > Maybe it > seems inconvenient, cumbersome, needlessly complicated, slow, etc. > But > assuming we modify the registration process to make -everybody- > register > (even if there were registered for the R6RS vote), would there be > anything > that seems unfair about it?
I've thought about this some. My first reaction was to say that it is fair given that all voters are treated equally. However, if one considers the accessibility to the voting process then I would have to say it is unfair because some people can access the voting process (registration and vote on the web) more easily than others. It is a question of the voter having enough free time, having the technical facility to access the registration and voting forms, and being reminded of the deadlines before they are passed. I'm specifically thinking of those who registered for the R6RS vote, but did not actually vote. Of course no procedure can be totally fair, but the goal is to be as fair as possible. I think that having a single submission of registration and vote is closer to the ideal. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in Canada you have to show an ID when you go to the polling station. To me the "registration" is a form of ID of being a Scheme "citizen", so I find the single event registration+vote to be natural. Marc _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
