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[Verax <verax AT 8chan.co>]

This is wildly incorrect.  There is nothing about democracy that 
"inherently requires" invalid votes.
We are also not a massive country where one voice is not going to be 
heard.  If you have a problem with something, maybe you should say 
something, rather than stuffing garbage into the vote threads, which we 
already have a hard enough time keeping on topic.

--Verax

Philipp Schafft wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 20:50 -0400, Verax wrote:
> > These people troll in every vote thread, they'll just make stupid votes
> > in english.
>
> It's really a sad to see people considering political protest
> "troll"ing.
>
>
> > A better solution IMO is to move the voting to somewhere where free-form
> > votes are not allowed.
>
> As long as that system IS one that is up to democratic standards that's
> fine. Democratic voting inherently requires to cast an invalid vote.
>
> With best regards,
>
>
> > --Verax
> >
> > Rouben wrote:
> > > 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"
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > -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?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Dan Q
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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