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Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting



* Harlan Lieberman-Berg <hlieberman@setec.io> [2022-03-05 16:13]:
I hereby amend this proposal, unless any of the seconding Developers
(CCed) objects.  The diff follows:

commit 7c4d89528a50345b0bd0e67d9d36499413d9d6c1
Author: Harlan Lieberman-Berg <hlieberman@setec.io>
Date:   Sat Mar 5 16:01:26 2022 -0500

   Change language as suggested by rlaager

diff --git a/english/devel/constitution.wml b/english/devel/constitution.wml
index 7924992d3a7..4830c972df9 100644
--- a/english/devel/constitution.wml
+++ b/english/devel/constitution.wml
@@ -225,16 +225,10 @@ earlier can overrule everyone listed later.</cite></p>
  </li>
   <li>
-    <p>
-       Votes, tallies, and results are not revealed during the voting
period.
-       After the vote, the Project Secretary lists all the votes cast,
unless
-       either one of the following is true:
-    </p>
-    <ol>
-       <li><p>The vote is for a leadership election as defined in
&sect;5.2.</p></li>
-       <li><p>At least 4K Developers have sponsored any single ballot
option
-       which says the votes will be kept secret.</p></li>
-    </ol>
+    <p>Votes, tallies, and results are not revealed during the voting
period.
+    If, during the discussion period, at least 4K Developers call for a
secret
+    ballot, then the votes are kept secret. Otherwise, after the vote, the
+    Project Secretary lists all the votes cast.</p>
  </li>
   <li>
@@ -854,12 +848,12 @@ plebiscites, where stated above.</p>
  proposed disagree with that change within 24 hours. If any of them do
  disagree, the ballot option is left unchanged.</li>
-  <li>The addition of a ballot option or the change via an amendment of a
-  ballot option changes the end of the discussion period to be one week
-  from when that action was done, unless that would make the total
-  discussion period shorter than the minimum discussion period or longer
-  than the maximum discussion period. In the latter case, the length of
-  the discussion period is instead set to the maximum discussion
+  <li>The addition of a ballot option, the change via an amendment of a
ballot
+  option, or a successful call for a secret ballot changes the end of the
+  discussion period to be one week from when that action was done,
unless that
+  would make the total discussion period shorter than the minimum
discussion
+  period or longer than the maximum discussion period. In the latter
case, the
+  length of the discussion period is instead set to the maximum discussion
  period.</li>
   <li>The proposer of a ballot option may make minor changes to that

I sponsor this ballot option in its amended form.


Cheers
Timo


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