Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

On ke, 2007-08-08 at 18:47 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> The main issue from where I sit is allowing enough time for nominees
> to post position statements and to have enough time for those position
> statements digested by the electorate, and enough initial discussion
> to occur so that interesting questions can be found for the debate. If
> candidates don't have these ready at the beginning of the campaign
> period, then the quality of the debate (and discussion) suffers.

I, as a voter, would also like to have ample time for discussion about
various topics after the IRC debate. Given the spread we have to many
time zones, and the speed with which discussions progress (not to be
confused with the number of e-mails per second), a week for discussion
really does sound to me like too little time.

Hurried campaigning does not seasoned choices make.

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