Subj : RE: 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To   : Terry Roati
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 12:53 pm

Terry,
 
About wheighted votes ...
 
TR> Fidonet has never done this in the past and probably never will.
 
Actually, it was introduced by IC-decree already a long time ago, never repealed but also never invoked. There were the times with a zone with only 1 sysop, a zone where the ZC did not understand english (that situation still exists, though it be a different zone), a zone with hardly nodes which Carol desperately tried to salvage at the time when Z2 had something like 7-8000 listed individual sysops.
 
That equality principle ensured that 50-60 sysops could grab the whole of the nodelist in a strangle hold ...
 
TR> The present system ensures that each area (RC) gets a vote which means
TR> bid areas can't dominate the vote, it's like the senate system in the US.
 
Odd comparison because big areas do dominate the presidential vote ....
 
 \%/@rd 

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