RE: [ga] Final draft of proposed mailing list rules

[john.c.lewis@bt.com]

I had no problems voting on your site

Best regards

John C Lewis
Manager - International Organisations Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joop Teernstra [SMTP:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
> Sent:	18 January 2000 00:25
> To:	William X. Walsh; ga@dnso.org
> Subject:	Re: [ga] Final draft of proposed mailing list rules
> Importance:	High
> 
> At 13:47 17/01/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
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> >On 17-Jan-2000 Darrell Greenwood wrote:
> >> At 2:25 AM -0800 1/17/0, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >> 
> >>>It is now time for an opinion poll on the proposed ruleset. By the end
> of
> >>>the week, we hope that we can have a decision.
> >> 
> >> Thank you Harald for the excellent job you have done in preparing this
> >> ruleset.
> >> 
> >> I voted at the website.
> >> 
> >> After I voted by pressing the "For" button nothing happened other
> >> than the "For" button flashing. There should be a feedback to the
> >> voter from the site that his vote has been recorded other than the
> >> button flashing locally on his computer on 'mouse down'. I checked
> >> the results page but again there was no way to determine if my vote
> >> had been recorded.
> >
> >It is really too bad that the GA has selected a voting mechanism that
> excludes
> >people using text and/or non-Javascript browsers from participating.
> >
> 
> Dear Mr Walsh,
> 
> Especially for you and perhaps a few other GA members who do not use
> standard browsers, I have added a second voting option so that nobody will
> be excluded.
> 
> >I will only guess that the person who maintains that booth didn't
> properly
> >disclose this to the GA asst. chair when the offer was made.
> >
> 
> I had announced earlier that the Booth had been reprogrammed to take votes
> from text -only browsers.
> This is the case for all "list"  options such as elections.
> 
>  FOR/AGAINST votes can be polled as list options as well, and this is what
> I have done now.
> 
> I hope this addresses your problem.
> 
> I take the opportunity to  encourage all members of the GA to vote and to
> express suggestions for improvement of the proposed rules.
> 
> 
> 
> --joop teernstra, IDNO bootstrap
> 
> --Make good use of any voting rights and opportunities--
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/

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