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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:28:17 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: Re: Why only commiters can vote for core?
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> I was wondering. What is the point of only allowing commiters to vote?
> Couldn't we create a FreeBSD Voting database or some other way to uniquely
> identify individuals?
> 
> We could make a FreeBSD electoral college. :-)

And with this can of worms, we see one reason why the process
occurs on a closed list.

-- Terry

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