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  • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Friday March 21 2014, @10:26PM

    by Open4D (371) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:26PM (#19505) Journal

    I previously argued [soylentnews.org] that we should have a discussion before the poll. The reply was "if there is some kind of overwhelming choice, and the same is reflected in comments and chatter, then that makes it a pretty easy decision. If it's all a mess and full of controversy then we have to go back to the drawing board." This was fine by me.

    But if the decision now is that there should be a proper vote, I think that makes it even more important that we have are told the options and have a discussion about them a few days in advance. You could easily imagine that 20 hours into such a discussion, someone brings up a very important point that would legitimately sway lots of people for or against one of the options. But if most people had already voted by then, it would be too late.

     
    P.S. Regarding voting technology, don't necessarily re-invent the wheel. You can outsource this kind of thing. The one such body I've heard of is ERS [electoralreform.co.uk] (but there will surely be others). They don't provide enough info on their website, but I could phone them up and ask them about prices, etc. if required. Or just something like https://www.surveymonkey.com/ [surveymonkey.com] Or just conduct the vote using people's verified email addresses, and count manually.

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