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From: <WDDM webmaster>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:31:13 -0600
Subject: What does the vote mean?

Subject: What does the vote mean?
From: lpc1998 <lpc1998(at)lpc1998.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net

It means that the majority of those who have voted rejected the idea that WDDM
be governed by a small group of members. However, this is not the purpose of
the vote. It was not about the election of WDDM Officers called
"Administrators" or any other management staff. We were trying to organize
"WDDM proper" with "active" members who would participate in discussions and
voting as full members of a DD organization are expected to do. This is why the
proposal is called "WDDM Membership Structure and Rules" and not "the Election
of WDDM Officers".

Many were confused by the use of the word "Administrators" for the "active"
members and had rightly voted against the proposal which appeared to have
conferred the powers of the Ordinary Members on the proposed "Administrators".

Furthermore, the wordings of the proposal also make it onerous to be "active"
members and to remain to be so, discouraging many from joining the "active"
group. This is contrary to the intention to have as many "active" members as
possible.

The good thing that has come out of this vote is that, at least 14 members have
responded to the vote and have shown their interest and concern for the future
of WDDM. They, therefore, deserve to be the first Ordinary Members of WDDM.

In view of the above, I propose we have another YES/NO vote on similar terms as
the previous one on this proposal (Proposal 02/2006):

1 That all the 14 members who have voted on the Proposal dated 19 June 2006
and any other who vote on Proposal 02/2006 be Ordinary Members;

2 That all the other current members who wish to be Ordinary Members make
their wish known to the WDDM Webmaster at wbm@world-wide-democracy.net within the next 14 calendar days. Those
who do not do so shall by default be Associate Members, but they are still
eligible to be Ordinary Members any time they wish.

3 That the meanings of Ordinary and Associate Members be the same as proposed
in Membership Rules Summary No. 2; and

4 That the Membership Rules Summary No. 2
http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?9,257,257#msg-257 be adopted.

In this case, the voting shall end by 5 July 2006.

After the vote is done and if Proposal 02/2006 is adopted, those who feel that
Membership Rules Summary No. 2 needs amendments could submit their proposals
for the Ordinary Members' consideration at the Forum and then for adoption, if
they are supported.

As this is a gaint step forward for WDDM to be an effective DD organization, I
urge all members to give Proposal 02/2006 their careful consideration and vote
on it.

Best Regards
Eric Lim



*/<WDDM webmaster>/* wrote:

Hi!
You all got all the responses, so you know the results are:

14 (out of the currently registered 40) members reacted:

Breakdown of the vote:

YES: 4 votes
NO: 6 votes
ABSTAINED: 3 votes (explicitly 1, implicitly 2)
UNCLEAR: 1 - from Gordan (Gale)'s e-mail it is not clear whether he
voted NO
or abstained, but this would not change the result.

(Interestingly, even two of the five members who participated in
preparing the
proposal have not submitted a vote.)

Therefore the proposal was rejected.
What does it mean???

Positive development: 2 or 3 additional members are interested in
the process
of creating a meaningful WDDM

Webmaster/moderator


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