Re: lack of candidates 2026 leader election

On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:57, Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2026/03/20 10:41, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> I also would prefer if there was more than one candidate, but perhaps 
>> changing the rules during the election isn't what we want.
>> 
>> There's in fact 2 ways this could happen.
>> 
>> 1/ Sruthi (temporarily) withdraw her nomination, just in order to 
>> restart the nomination period. Is this really possible?
>> 
>> 2/ Sruthi refuses to do 1/, and A majority vote NotA.
>
>I'd like to add a 3rd option (after the elections). Propose a GR for a 
>change in the voting process, that if any candidates nominate themselves 
>in the last 12 hours of the nomination process, then the nomination 
>window extends by another 48h to allow someone who specifically wants to 
>challenge that person to do so. It's perhaps not perfect, but it would 
>catch a lot of cases that people are concerned about (perhaps the exact 
>definition and timeframes could do with some tweaking, but that's the 
>general idea).

I disagree. We have set those voting and nomination periods; and as with 
any other democratic voting process those are there for a reason. IMO 
it's simply not fair to make an exception if the period ended. If you 
participate in public elections as candidate in a democratic country and 
miss the deadline to submit your list, that's it. Yes, it is harsh, but 
any other way would be unfair to the candidate(s) that submitted their 
platform/list in time. Please ignore the FUD from non-DD that are trying 
to undermine the democratic process and focus on the platform and 
content thereof.

best,

werdahias

PS: We had plenty of platforms where only one candidate was present