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On 08/01/2012 06:02 PM, Benjamin Black wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>>> And if the answer is 'no' then its probably not an issue they care
>>> that much about and its not those cases I think people are really
>>> worried about.  In the end I just don't see the upside but plenty
>>> of downside to allowing companies more than one vote at the board.
>>
>> I agree re: allowing companies more than one vote. I'm just saying
>> please, please, please do not confuse a vote from me with a vote from my
>> company. I'm fairly certain that I can provide years of corroboration
>> for that.
>>
> 
> The question there is not whether _you_, or any other specific person,
> can be trusted to act independently of their employer.  The question
> is whether permitting member company employees to hold individual
> seats _in general_ will serve the community and the project over the
> long-term.  In this I take a pretty liberal view of the democratic
> process: I am much more trusting of the electorate and much less
> trusting of the candidates.

Totally. At the end of the day, if we can't get a good electorate up in
here, all the seat number restrictions in the world aren't going to save us.