[odf-discuss] Compilation of Country Votes
Carlos Moffat
carlos.lst at eldiabloenlosdetalles.net
Fri Aug 24 15:13:53 EDT 2007
Ok, don't you guys get too ambitious here. The software is quite
limited.
For now, keep the country/vote pairs coming, if you know of any.
I've added:
Yes:
Portugal
No:
China, Japan
Any others?
Carlos
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:59 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Yoon Kit Yong wrote:
> > What we should really do is to tally up countries Yes:No vote ratios
> > and Transparency International's corruption index.
>
> LOL. That would be great leverage if a positive correlation could be
> demonstrated.
>
> Though I'm not too sure about the Index itself. For example, Sweden's
> rotten-to-the-core corrupt, but gets a low rating. It's just very, very
> different about it than say Colombia or Panama. Finland's quite
> corrupt, too, but very nice about it, so you don't feel quite as bad
> about it.
>
> Perhaps one of the key factors is style. No matter how profitable,
> plomo o plata just isn't enjoyable.
>
> Seriously, it's a good idea to cross-index the votes with known
> mischief[1]. I bet in the yes countries and a few of the mayebs, there
> are a lot of incidents involving breach of procedure, radical
> restructuring, and drastic membership changes in the decision-making
> bodies since May.
>
> -Lars
>
> [1] e.g. Jordan, Romania, Australia, etc.
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