RE: [ga] Voters interest and Defining a voter's roll

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 15:51 3/02/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
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>On 03-Feb-2000 Joop Teernstra wrote:
>> May I propose that those interested in voting enroll themselves volutarily
>> on the dnso website, or via an email to a trusted listmember willing to
>> volunteer building this roll?
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>> Then both issues of identity and the measure of interest in voting can be
>> addressed. 
>> 
>> This is better than judging voters' interest from members participation in
>> a poll from which they may have consciously wished to abstain.
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>So you admit that a "roll call" vote shows the interest in participation
of the
>polled group?
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If you read it again, you see that that  is exactly the opposite of  what I
am saying.
I am arguing for a voters registration *independent* from the issue at hand.

The low voter turnout on the idno list (not a membership wide vote, but
only a discussion list vote) is more likely due to voters wishing to
abstain from this particular vote.
For example I abstained from the last voting  in WG-E , but this does not
mean that I would not want to have voting rights there.




--Joop--
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