Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Repeat vote: GA voters list updates

[Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 2:22 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in [1] JB listed his list of authorized voters for the "GA voters list
> updates"
> vote.
>
> This list does not correlate with the list Josh provided in [2].
> Neither does this list of 51 people [1] correlate to the 54 authorized
> voters
> (distinct email addresses) the CIVS system actually counted, see [3].
>
> This can mean only one of two things, either some people on the list in
> [1] did
> receive more than one ballot, or JB failed to list all the authorized
> voters and
> ballots have been given to unknown people. Both possibilities are
> unacceptable
> flaws for a democratic vote.
>
> As the admin responsible of the votes it is my duty to have supervision of
> all
> polls and thus it is my duty to declare this vote null and void for the
> flaws
> given above.
>
> This vote will be repeated from Sun 12th of November to Sunday 19th of
> November
> so we don't have to move the following votes yet another time.
> It will be using the list given by Josh [2] as it seems to be the closest
> to the
> truth we can get. The old extra members of the GA have become void
> according to [4]
> and will not be included.
>
> Furthermore, I patched the voting system to log all authorized voters in
> the
> future to prevent this situation in the future.
>
> The authorized voters for the repeated vote [2] reads as follows:
>
> [email list snipped]
>
> -Thilo
>
> [1]
> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-November/316594.html
> [2] https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/KNrvxILA/Votes_2020.txt
> [3] https://vote.ffmpeg.org/cgi-bin/civs/results.pl?id=E_029f7195fed7aadf
> [4] https://ffmpeg.org/community.html#General-Assembly-1
> _______________________________________________
>

This is why we cannot have nice things.
-- 
Vittorio
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