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Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English


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  • From: Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] [PROPOSAL] Require voting in English
  • Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 16:29:09 -0400

I think “potato salad” qualifies as a spoiled ballot. :)

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 16:13 Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:
One of them asked if the word was Austrian or German. Google Translate does not offer an option for Austrian, and one of the votes was German for "potato salad"

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-Dan Q


On Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:55:18 +0000, gp AT gparent.net wrote:

> Regardless if the people voting in other languages were being silly or
> not, I think it would be a good idea.
>
> On 2018-08-07 18:50, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A number of individuals are voting on proposals in other languages
> > (Austrian? German?). Not everyone can speak these languages, and I've
> > never seen languages other than English spoken on the list. I don't
> > know how to process these votes, though I'm hoping someone else can
> > before time runs out (or until someone translates them for Jonah and
> > I). But in the future, unless the demographics in this shift into
> > speakers of another language, who can reverse saide policy, we should
> > require voting in English, with votes in other languages considered
> > invalid.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
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> >
> > -Dan Q
> >
> >
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