From: joy <joy@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:36:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: rephrased and expanded the voting section a little bit
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rephrased and expanded the voting section a little bit


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@@ -298,21 +298,26 @@ the documentation of the <package>debian-keyring</package> package.
 
        <sect id="voting">Voting
 	<p>
-Even if Debian is not always a real democracy, Debian has democratic
-tools and uses a democratic process to elect its leader or
-to approve a general resolution. Those processes are described in
-the <url id="&url-constitution;" name="Debian Constitution">.
+Even though Debian isn't really a democracy, we use a democratic
+process to elect our leaders and to approve general resolutions.
+These procedures are defined by the
+<url id="&url-constitution;" name="Debian Constitution">.
 	<p>
-Democratic processes work well only if everybody take part in the
-vote, that's why you have to vote. To be able to vote you have to
-subscribe to &email-debian-devel-announce; since call for votes are sent
-there. If you want to follow the debate preceding a vote, you
-may want to subscribe to &email-debian-vote;.
+Other than the yearly leader election, votes are not routinely held, and
+they are not undertaken lightly. Each proposal is first discussed on
+the &email-debian-vote; mailing list and it requires several endorsements
+before the project secretary starts the voting procedure.
+	<p>
+You don't have to track the pre-vote discussions, as the secretary will
+issue several calls for votes on &email-debian-devel-announce; (and all
+developers are expected to be subscribed to that list). Democracy doesn't
+work well if people don't take part in the vote, which is why we encourage
+all developers to vote. Voting is conducted via GPG-signed/encrypted emails
+messages.
 	<p>
 The list of all the proposals (past and current) is available on the
-<url id="&url-vote;" name="Debian Voting Information"> page. You will find
-there additional information about how to make a vote proposal.
-
+<url id="&url-vote;" name="Debian Voting Information"> page, along with
+information on how to make, second and vote on proposals.
 
       <sect id="inform-vacation">Going on vacation gracefully
 	<p>