Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

This thread is here just to reminder about upcoming elections , how can it be improved or just helping anyone to vote ...

So here is an anonymous survey

Will be updated later ... but the question is the same


http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ection_Q4_2014


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Please help to promote the election :

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

first voter :)

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Bumpppppppppp !

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Definitely. I will vote.

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Never voted before.

Hmmmm

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

well now you can have sex ;)

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Will vote for sure! :)

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The real question is: WHO will you vote for? :p

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

I will vote (as I did in the last few rounds).
I'm happy to see that this time I won't need to choose by exclusion... we have a awesome lineup of candidates!

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

I've been actually thinking about that. Why not making it a poll. We have 11 candidates, a manageable number of poll options.

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

this will just create confusion specially , what matters is to have more voters than in the past ... feel tree to talk with candidates in the specific thread ...

like this one :

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1449844

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Do pre-election preference polls create confusion? They shouldn't, as long as they are done properly.
But don't worry, I am not going to create one ;)

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

"No, I dont vote for personal reason"

Voting is mandatory in australia, I've dropped of the system, so I don't

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Do you have a garage account?

Best wishes.

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What happens to you if you do not vote? Just harassing or will you have to do jail time? :confused:

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

What? :confused: But regardless, how's that related to Council elections?

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And is it linked to your TMO account?
Karma of at least 10 is needed for electorate...

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

man i dont know about karma but i voted earlier so all ok i.e electorate ?

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

If you voted earlier, sure you will be able to do that this time :)
The voting macine is semi-automatic, if you are [*]eligible to vote, you will be automatically mailed the voting token.

[*] meaning; have maemo account, have linked accounts, have enough karma...

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Erm, erm.
Having the accounts linked is not mandatory, afaik. But it will lead you to higher karma (due to karma points earned by posts/thanks on tmo) ...

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

True, yeah, but technicality really.
It is a really rare beast indeed who manages to collect karma from just wiki & blogs. I almost tend to say there's nobody like that :)

Re: Nominations for Council election Q4 2014
 

Me want votes...

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

HtheB is/was one of the candidates having collected enough karma to vote withoit having linked :D
But I agree, in general it will be quite hard to collect enough karma to vote (or even get voted ;)) without linking the accounts.

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

You get fined each time you don't vote (150-200AUD)
So that's local council, state and federal.
It's a joke and a shame, all to amuse the docile peasantry here.
I haven't voted since 2007...

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

I can haz your votes?

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Why don't you vote in the party which would allow people to refuse voting, if they want to?

Best wishes.

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I consider that a really bad practice! We hold our right to vote as a honorary responsibility, not something that is forced to us from above!
I have to admit that even as I lived for three years in WA back when I was under the age limit to vote yet, I do not ever remember hearing about that kind of procedure... Maybe it is a newer thing, that was back in the early eighties?


@Wikiwide has a really good point there, this thing must piss off so many people they'd constitute a reasonably large number of people to do something about it!

In finland we have a system where if large enough group of people sign an online petition that some law has to be created/deleted/modified, then the parliament has to process it through the normal law-making procedures. It does not guarantee that it gets passed, there have been both proposals that have been accepted and rejected, but at least processing it is mandatory.

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

re Aust voting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electo...m_of_Australia

"Voting is compulsory both at federal elections and at elections for the state and territory legislatures. In the states of South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia voting at local elections is not compulsory.[6] About 5% of enrolled voters fail to vote at most elections. People in this situation are asked to explain their failure to vote. If no satisfactory reason is provided (for example, illness or religious prohibition), a fine of up to $170 is imposed,[7] and failure to pay the fine may result in a court hearing."
Edit, wikipedia is wrong: Voting is also compulsory in most local government elections.


"Why don't you vote in the party which would allow people to refuse voting, if they want to?"
Because they wont win, and because of the preferential voting system, the vote goes to another party.

Jefferson said about democracy: the tyranny of the majority over the minority (i.e., 51% enslaving the other 49%).
So true!

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
worthwhile read, particularly when considering what's recently going on in maemo community. There's a reason why council terms are limited to 6 months and re-elections are triggered easily and even more so after HiFo got established.
That new order movement is aiming at smashing all that, establishing a small vocal group as in
and abandoning rules (particularly the mutual red button re-election rule) that were meant to counteract such processes, along the line of
anyway, good luck peeps
/j

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

I have just voted now, have you ?

if not have you recieved this letter :



Dear ???.

The election of Maemo Community Council opens on Sunday 28th December 2014,
and you have received this email as you are eligible to vote.

The Maemo Council consists of 5 members who will serve
a 6 month term. You can learn more about the candidates at:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=94230
http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ection_Q4_2014


CANDIDATES
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A full list of candidates and their reasons for running can be found at:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...e_declarations


HOW TO VOTE
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Your voting credentials are:

URL: http://maemo.org/vote/
E-mail: ???????
Vote token: ???????

After authenticating yourself, you can choose your preferred candidates
in order of preference. You will have an opportunity to verify and
confirm your vote afterwards.

Once you have confirmed your vote, a unique secret identifier will be
given to you which will allow you to verify after the election that your
vote was counted correctly.

Once you have voted, you will not be able to vote again. Also note that
the voting booth closes at midnight on Saturday 3th January 2015.

Thank you for your vote!

Regards,
The Maemo Community Council, on behalf of the Maemo community.

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

My karma hasn't been calculated and I didn't receive any email. I've linked my TMO account to Maemo profile. Could it be that a different username could be affecting it?

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

i did few hours ago.

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If you did not please avoid voting for pichlo , not that he does not worth this role but he recently stepped down :

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...tepped_down.29

I wont give any other recommendations since I feel the wiki page is enough to let you decide who should run next council ...


From TMO special reporter juiceme : 48 members voted so far ... is it enough ?

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

If you did not please avoid voting for pichlo , not that he does not worth this role but he recently stepped down :

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...tepped_down.29

I wont give any other recommendations since I feel the wiki page is enough to let you decide who should run next council ...


From TMO special reporter juiceme : 48 members voted so far ... is it enough ? We had only 83 last time ( http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=37 )

Please help to promote those elections on your channels (including TMO, by editing signature for instance if you have none ask us how)

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Oh, I have voted! :)

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Fixed OK :D

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I've voted :-D (first time)

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Voted.

One note: clicking on the link in the voting page (http://maemo.org/vote/) sends you via HTTP to the page for the actual vote, while it's possible to get the same page as HTTPS (i.e. with a secure, encrypted link).
As it's about private voting, I think it would be a good idea to switch to HTTPS by default.
We live in a post-Snowden era after all, don't we? :)

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

Remarkably good idea!
I'll fix the mail template for the next election.

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Actually, now as I checked it, the voting page is not available via HTTPS, you get a 404 on trying it.

How did you access the page via https?

Re: Will you vote for next Maemo Council Elections ?
 

@juiceme
Not the voting entry page
http://maemo.org/vote/
is accessible via https. but the underlying election page
http://maemo.org/vote/vote.php?election_id=38

See
https://maemo.org/vote/vote.php?election_id=38