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[Amunak <amunak AT amunak.net>]

How are those things different? You either agree with the proposal and vote YES, disagree and vote NO (which I feel is something you may have wanted to do) or you abstain for whatever reason (like I did). There is no reason to even announce the decision to abstain, as anything but a YES or NO vote should not be counted anyways. You can vote ABSTAIN, RANDOM or UNICORNS and it will have the same effect (that is to say, absolutely none).

Why do you believe our voting process is undemocratic?

Amunak

On 31.12.2017 0:25, Philipp Schafft wrote:

Good evening,

On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 13:10 +1100, opennic AT ned-ludd.com wrote:

On Fri, 29 Dec 2017, Philipp Schafft wrote:

So I cam to the conclusion that my only option would be to 
cast an invalid vote. It was the only option left for me to 
actively show that I can not support any of the given options.

It might have saved some confusion if you'd declared your 
intention to ABSTAIN rather than voting RANDOM.

I wanted to cast an invalid vote. That is what I did. If I wanted to
abstain I would have done that. Those are two totally different things.

I've searched the Wiki for a detailed description of voting 
guidelines and found nothing much beyond mention of YES and NO 
votes.  If such exists I'd be grateful for a link so I can read 
it.  If it doesn't exist it seems to me that the voting system 
is in need of clarification and, perhaps, codification.

 
I don't think there is one. And I always suggested to have some general
process documented that is binding. In addition some specific additions
for specific kinds of votes.

Also the absence of a documented process doesn't mean you're bound to
your responsibility to uphold what I would consider common sense for
democratic elections.

Failing to do so however let my stay away from acknowledging this
election.


With best regards,

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