Subj : RE: 2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Votes Received
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Terry Roati
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 10:41 pm

Hi Ward,

On Mar 07, 2022 12:52pm, Ward Dossche wrote to Terry Roati:

 WD> Actually, it was introduced by IC-decree already a long time ago, never
 WD> repealed but also never invoked. There were the times with a zone with
 WD> only 1 sysop, a zone where the ZC did not understand english (that
 WD> situation still exists, though it be a different zone), a zone with
 WD> hardly nodes which Carol desperately tried to salvage at the time when
 WD> Z2 had something like 7-8000 listed individual sysops.

My 5 cents worth, I beleive it will never be invoked, probably why the idea
died at the time it was proposed. No Zone wars no problem.

 WD> That equality principle ensured that 50-60 sysops could grab the whole
 WD> of the nodelist in a strangle hold ...

My 5 cents worth, I beleive it will never happen now.

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
TR>> US.

 WD> Odd comparison because big areas do dominate the presidential vote ....

I said Senate, where each state gets the same number of votes so the
population of each state doesn't come into it. Thhe US presidental vote is
completely different and a mystery to outsiders like me :)

Terry

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