Jan Kurik wrote:
> During the Autumn 2017 Election cycle we wanted to try a new approach
> in the way how Elections are organized [1]. Unfortunately, at the
> beginning of the Voting period we realized the new way does not work
> as expected [2] and even we tried to put some mitigation plan in place
> [3], we have not succeeded. To come up with some workable solution we
> have decided to cancel the currently running Autumn 2017 Elections and
> start it again in early January 2018. In upcoming days I will publish
> a schedule for the January 2018 Elections as well as more details on
> how we are going to organize it.
IMHO, the questionnaire answers need to be up when the voting opens. This
means the deadline needs to be such that there is time to actually publish
the answers (even in the event of technical difficulties, or at least there
needs to be the time to make a decision to postpone the election in case of
technical difficulties). It is impossible to decide whom to vote for without
knowing what the candidates actually stand for.
In addition, the deadline for nomination probably needs to be even earlier,
or the candidates will have a hard time trying to nominate late because
there is no time left for the questionnaire. It is pointless to allow people
to nominate at the last second just to remove them again because there is no
way they can answer the questionnaire in one second.
The schedule tried this time, with deadline for nomination, deadline for
questionnaire answers, and start of the voting period all at the same time,
just does not work.
Previous elections had deadlines that were suitably spaced out. There was
one week for campaigning and questions&answers with nomination already
closed. Why was that changed this time?
Kevin Kofler
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