2019 Election Round 2: Wrong behaviour?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 11:22:05AM +0200, David Rheinsberg wrote:
> Hey
> 
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 11:05 AM Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:06:30PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > During voting I notived that it wasn't possible to let positions open for
> > > ranking, i.e. it wasn't possible to give specific persons 0 points. Is this as
> > > intended? I understood the description of election differently. Are you sure
> > > this is the correct behaviour?
> 
> ..neither was it possible to select a specific person twice.

I believe this hasn't been possible in previous elections either. And it
was documented, that this isn't possible.

https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/

[...] Of course each rank can be assigned to at most one candidate. [...]

> So this time, one really had to order all options before being able to
> submit.  I thought this was different in past elections.

So at least one person, who could confirm the behaviour I've seen.

And it should have been possible.

https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/

[...] Thus, refusing to rank someone denies them any points at all. [...]

Thanks,
Stefan

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