[tei-council] Electing a TEI Technical Council Chair for next year.

[David Sewell]

The only caveat for OpaVote is that you need to pay a small fee (via PayPal, 
US$5) to keep the election open and/or results live past the free window of 
time, which is 2 weeks.

For the TEI elections, I paid the cost myself as a donation.

David

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, James Cummings wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I had a look at opavote.org and ran a fake election with a bunch 
> of my own email accounts. I can confirm what Peter suggested, 
> that an election can be run with entirely secret voting in 
> opavote where the person who set it up *cannot* know who voted 
> for whom. The Chair running the election can see whether personX 
> has voted or not, but not who for. Opavote has all sorts of 
> features, but can set up a fairly simple vote or those which 
> allow you to express your preference for candidates and their 
> order. The ballots are entirely secret, the voters notified by 
> email, and the final result of the ballot is open (but not who 
> voted for who). So I think using that system the existing Council 
> Chair can do it without any real impropriety. Do others strongly 
> agree/disagree with that?
>
> After listening to the various points of view so far my 
> suggestion of a protocol is as follows:
>
> 1) Up until the last Friday in November, Council members for next 
> year consider whether they want to run. Before that date they 
> send a statement of some sort to the Council mailing list saying 
> why people should vote for them.
>
> 2) On the first weekday of December, if multiple people are 
> running, then the the Council Chair sets up an opavote.org 
> election with the names of the candidates. This should have the 
> following settings: Results only shown at end, "Instant Runoff 
> Voting" method, a single winner, "ranked enhanced" ballot type, 
> and candidate order shuffled.
>
> 3) The current Chair runs the election for at least 3 days in 
> early December; results are announced publicly on Council list, 
> and Council members given any chance to object before being 
> announced on TEI-L
>
> 4) The current Chair hands over to the new chair almost 
> immediately after the election, but assists them in planning for 
> the next year until the end of the year.  (Remembering that in 
> theory the current Chair might be departing off council at the 
> end of the year, though that isn't the case this year.)
>
> Improvements?
>
> -James
>
> On 30/10/13 11:49, Stefanie Gehrke wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>>> Any additional, dissenting or agreeing, thoughts? New Council
>>> members, how would you want it to work?
>>
>> I am fine with Fabio's proposals.
>>
>> Looking forward to building reliable relations and contributing to the work of the Technical Council.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Stefanie
>>
>>
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>> ------------------------
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>>
>> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Fabio Ciotti" <fabio.ciotti at uniroma2.it>
>> À: "Hugh Cayless" <philomousos at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "TEI Council" <tei-council at lists.village.virginia.edu>
>> Envoyé: Mardi 29 Octobre 2013 23:03:56
>> Objet: Re: [tei-council] Electing a TEI Technical Council Chair for next	year.
>>
>> In general I think it would be nice to have a formal procedure since
>> we cannot foresee if future composition of the Council could generate
>> conflict (I guess not, but...), especially if there is more than one
>> candidate.
>>
>> In my opinion
>>
>> 1) the person who organise and act as the scrutineer can be the the
>> senior member (better than the current Chair since in theory he will
>> have less conflicts of interests) if he is not standing for election;
>> otherwise the Council can ask the Board to designate a member for that
>> role.
>>
>> 2) direct mail is a viable solution to express votes, since the
>> votings members are only 11, but also a doodle can work. We can avoid
>> (or reduce) spamming keeping it open for just one or two days and
>> giving the link in this mailing list only one day before.
>>
>> But if there is only one candidate and all the Council members feel
>> fine with him (or more formally if no member of the Council explicitly
>> ask for the voting procedure)  I agree with Hugh, we can proceed by
>> acclamation. And finally, I am even less competent than Hugh, so I
>> will not stand for election :-)
>>
>> Fabio
>>
>
>
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> Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
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