[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Richard Lowe]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> [2007-02-05 11:04]:
>> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>>   A possible draft ballot (to be wedged into the software) is below.
>>>   Feedback on language, presented information, etc. is greatly desired.
>>>
>>>   - Stephen
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>>   To participate in this ballot, you must be a Core Contributor to one
>>>   or more Community Groups in the OpenSolaris Community.  The ballot
>>>   consists of 2 questions.
>>>
>>>   Question 1:  Do you approve the document, 
>>>
>>>   http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Governance_Draft_03
>>>
>>>   for use as the Constitution of the OpenSolaris Community?
>>>
>>>   1 - Approve
>>>   2 - Disapprove
>>>
>>>   Question 2:  Question 1, if approved, requires the election of a
>>>   Governing Board.  The participants below have been nominated as
>>>   candidates to serve on a seven member Board.  The Board members shall
>>>   be selected by single transferable vote.  Accordingly, please submit
>>>   an ordered list of the candidates, showing your preference by placing
>>>   most preferred candidate at the head of the list, followed by
>>>   candidates of lower and lower preference.  You may present a list of
>>>   the entire slate, or a subset thereof.  (The list is presented in a
>>>   pre-selected random order.)
>>>
>>>   1 - J. Jones (jjones)
>>>   2 - S. Smith (ssmith)
>>>   ...
>> It maybe worth explicitly stating how candidates not listed here are viewed 
>>  in the order of preference (all equally at the very lowest level, I 
>> assume, but...)
> 
>   Sorry, I'm a bit slow today:  are you asking about adding some
>   clarification (or additional help text) to explain how candidates
>   omitted from a submitted ballot are treated?  Or something about the
>   displayed list or the balloting prompt?
> 

My bad, I realize that I wasn't so precise.

If a subset of the total ballot is presented, how are candidates not 
included in that subset ranked? is what I'm thinking should perhaps be stated.

-- Rich