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- From: nadeem@igpho (Nadeem Malik)
- Subject: Re: Voting on the Ahmadiyya Newgroup
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.174614.25302@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:46:14 GMT
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- nadeem@igpho (Nadeem Malik) writes:
- : rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:
- : : In article <1992Nov14.024750.3261@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, rached@blanc.eng.ohio-state.edu (rached) writes:
- : : > Hi
- : : >
- : : > I am completely confused. This morning I read about the CFV for SRIA and
- : : > sent my vote to the specified address. Then now I read that the votes
- : : > should be sent to somwhere else. I think this is a very bad way to
- : : > conduct a voting and therefore I move to call for an annulation of both
- : : > votes and a postponment to the voting period to a time where it is
- : : > clear where the votes must go and how the voting should be done.
- : :
- : : I am not mystified but troubled. In the period of time I have been on the net
- : : and for the first time since we had news.announce.newgroups this is the first
- : : time I have ever seen this happen. For the sake of preventing another even more
- : : violent flame war over this vote may I suggest that the CFV for the group be
- : : canceled now and a disinterested third party volunteer to take the votes. I
- : : can already see that regardless of how the vote goes; if either a proponent or
- : : opponent of the group collects the vote, there will probably be claims of
- : : improprieties in the vote. Let's head them off as much as possible and not
- : : repeat the fiascos such as the sf-lovers reorg or soc.culture,indian.american
- : :
- : :
- : : --
- : : Richard H. Miller Email: rick@bcm.tmc.edu
- : : Asst. Dir. for Technical Support Voice: (713)798-3532
- : : Baylor College of Medicine US Mail: One Baylor Plaza, 302H
- : : Houston, Texas 77030
- :
- : I have talked to most Ahmadis on e-mail, and we are all very disturbed by this
- : latest episode. One M. Jaffrey somehow was given "authority" unoficially and
- : unilaterally by a Moderator of Soc.religion.islam to issue a CFV for the proposed
- : s.r.i.ahmadiyya newsgroup. This is a most extraordinary move since of all people
- : the moderator, one Balasat Ali has been aware that our moderator, Nabeel Rana
- : was to be the one to call for votes. This is clear since a previous CFV by
- : Nabeel a week or two was cancelled. So the Ali and Jaffrey cannot claim any
- : sort of ignorance on this issue.
- :
- :
- : So one is left to speculate on their motivation for making an un-offocial CFV. some
- : of the things that are disturbing us most is that (1) it may confuse many people so
- : that they may end up wasting their votes either by sending to the wrong address or
- : simply getting fed up of it all; (2) the knowledge that the oppposing Muslims
- : gain from who is voting YES for the s.r.i.a. may be used to canvass or even
- : intimadate these people privately to vote NO.
- :
- : Since this is quite unprecedented, I am strongly in favour of cancelling the present
- : CFV and waiting about a week or two before proceding. In the meantime, is it possible
- : that the opposing camp should be penalised for their very obvious deception. I
- : feel that strong and decisive action must be taken otherwise it may encourage them
- : to other follys later on.
- :
- : Nadeem Malik
- : nadeem@p.igp.ethz.ch
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- p.s. I have just read a post by Jaffrey on Soc.culture.pakistan that he intends to
- continue collecting votes and that he has collected 200 votes so far.
-