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01283: Re: [WDDM] ATD 200705-04 - Shaking False Democracy to the Core #01

From: "M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:25:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [WDDM] ATD 200705-04 - Shaking False Democracy to the Core #01

Eric, but what prevents you to vote NO if you are nor comfortable with
the wording of an issue? This will make your vote to be counted, and
may help to force the issue revisited if enough people vote the same
way as you.
I am only proposing to abstain (and thus leave the decision to others)
if you have no problem with the wording of an issue/proposal, have no
opinion on the issue, and can live with either result of this voting.
What is wrong with that?
Mirek
...

Do note that, on these wordings, even those who participate in the
discussion, but who could not, in good conscience, vote because of the
wordings of the issues are disenfranchised. Although this procedure is
widely used by false democracy, it is particularly bad for any
organisation or community that aspires to be a true democracy. This is
a mechanism that enables a small minority who are in control of the
voting processes to go through the motion of open and public
discussion and then put up all the vote choices that could have
consequences not acceptable to some or even many of the participants
in the discussion. Only the votes of those who vote are counted.


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