[Nottingham] Voting

[Michael Simms]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:59 +0100, Roger Light wrote:
> On 20/07/05, Michael Simms <michael at tuxgames.com> wrote:
> > I'll have to say - not desperately impressed. A 4 hour 8 minute window
> > between the candidates being announced and the voting being closed,
> > during a time when everyone with a job would probably be unable to
> > access their personal email and vote. I was out of town and so missed it
> > completely. I would have LIKED to have voted.
> 
> Whilst it is true that the summary of the candidates was unfortunately
> delayed a little, the announcement of when voting ended did in fact
> take place two days ago and all candidates were announced before then
> so you can't complain too much really.

Maybe, however I dont consider having to trawl through the mailing list
and pick out who was standing who had seconded them as a 'list of who is
standing' - unless I missed a list previously, but I don't think I did.

> Having said that, apologies for the delay in getting the summary email
> out - this was caused by myself having a horrendous amount of work to
> do in the past two days and my own misunderstanding of when Martin
> intended voting to end. I had expected it to run into tomorrow.

I also had expected at least time enough to allow everyone to vote.
Personally I feel that a window of just over 4 hours is a joke. I would
expect well over 75% of the LUG either a) has a job and so wouldnt be
able to vote during those hours, or b) is a student and probably would
have had some kind of educational commitment during those hours.. 

As I said in my last email, I dont consider it 'underhanded' or
anything, just terribly timed and very unfair for the vast majority of
LUG members.

> Roger
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