<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:33 PM, inode0 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inode0@gmail.com" target="_blank">inode0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Spending 10 minutes on voting is preposterous for 99% of the people<br>
eligible to vote. If you already know all the candidates personally<br>
and already understand the issues related to the body being elected<br>
you can vote in 10 minutes. Otherwise such a vote is damaging to the<br>
election process and not something we want to encourage.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Understood. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
How much time did I spend on voting this year. Let's say an hour or<br>
two reading through and thinking about the candidate questionnaires.<br>
Then there were the 5 townhalls where the candidates came to talk with<br>
those electing them directly in an open forum. Those were scheduled<br>
for one hour each but they all went longer I think. So let's say I<br>
spent another 6 or 7 hours at the townhalls, including one at 5am my<br>
time. I talked to several of the candidates and other contributors<br>
about election issues over the weeks leading up to the election. I<br>
think it is fair to say that being an engaged voter required at least<br>
20 hours of my time in the past election.<br></blockquote><div><br>Do not confuse with 10 min what i said already.let me clear my point as usual we are spending some time by daily basic to read fedora mails and wiki ..so on.. so as i said that final 10 min enough to read instruction and cast your vote.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If you only want to write numbers in boxes you can do that fast with<br>
little effort. If you want to actually participate in the elections as<br>
an informed and knowledgeable voter it will take time and effort on<br>
your part as a voter. It isn't being lazy for an eligible voter to<br>
feel that being a responsible voter takes too much effort, too much<br>
time he/she would rather spend doing something else. It isn't being<br>
lazy if you just don't care about the governance of the different<br>
parts of the Fedora Project.</blockquote><div><br>Good point and knowledgeable voter or active ambassadors,she/he already knows up to date news happening around fedora, also i hope they know each others on their region *only* if they are active.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> In my opinion, it is lazy to be a voter<br>
and only give 10 minutes of your time in the process.<br></blockquote><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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John<br>
<div><div>--<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>-Suresh <br></div></div>