Re: Spelljammer Council Results

Kelly Pedersen wrote:

> --- Jim Sheetz <HeyJim@???.?????????.com> wrote:
> > Congratulations Revered Councilors.  :-)
> > It would be interesting to know how many people voted, and how many
> > votes
> > each candidate received.
>
> Well, Thom and I prefer not to reveal that information. I don't want
> to on the grounds of voter confidentiality. Even if we don't say who
> voted for who, it does give a kind of picture of the votes. I'm not
> sure I want to do that. We said (IIRC) that voting would be
> confidential, and I'd like to keep my word, and if that means going
> to ridiculous lengths, so be it. OTOH, we could stipulate in later
> votes that the totals would be revealed. I don't think revealing
> totals is really nessecary, though. I can see it fostering disconent
> amoung those who got lower vote totals. That's why I don't like the
> idea.

The totals should be revealed.  I certainly never took the confidential
remark to mean anything other than whom individuals voted for would remain
confidential.  Almost all elections I know of indicate the total number of
votes each candidate received.

Dave Lebert