Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English

Thank you Phillip for articulating my thoughts exactly as well as standing up for democratic values.

~ 
Sebastian Makowiecki

On 8 August 2018 07:51:23 GMT+01:00, Philipp Schafft <[email protected]> wrote:
>Good morning,
>
>On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 14:50 -0400, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A number of individuals are voting on proposals in other languages
>> (Austrian? German?).
>
>Please provide me pointers to those emails that there written in
>languages but English. I can't see any.
>
>All I can see is people placing votes that are invalid. The status of a
>vote being "invalid" is not a property of the language in use but is
>only based on if the vote matches one of the options or not.
>
>This basically is a question of string matching.
>
>Also consider how all those nations out there with more than one
>official language do there votes. They also do not depend on it.
>
>
>> I don't know how to process these votes, though I'm hoping someone
>> else can before time runs out (or until someone translates them for
>> Jonah and I).
>
>Super simple, AND also doesn't require translation:
>Count them as invalid. Invalid votes are counted as other options and
>ARE included in the total amount of votes.
>
>E.g:
>
>3 voted yes, 2 voted no, 4 voted invalid -> 9 total votes, 33.33...%
>are
>for yes, 22.22...% are for no, 44.44...% voted invalid. No option
>reached absolute majority.
>
>Depending on if absolute majority (more than 50% are for one option) is
>needed or not "yes" passes or no option passes.
>
>
>> What do you think?
>
>I thin that you should not try to limit what little of OpenNIC's
>democracy, which always include creative political protest, is left
>even
>more. Even more true with another rush-in proposal. If a voting process
>is defined in a clean way it is perfectly independent on natural
>languages.
>
>With best regards standing up proudly for a better world,
>
>-- 
>Philipp.
> (Rah of PH2)



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