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

[Kevin Hawkins]

I'm also with Peter, both on not allowing the person counting ballots 
(which, I've recently learned, is called a "returning officer" in 
British English) to run for the position but also on having a secret 
ballot.  I'll conduct the election if needed.

While Council members have in recent years gotten along well enough that 
they feel comfortable with public voting, there's a good reason that 
democratic systems have tended to move from open to secret ballot rather 
than the other way around.

--Kevin

On 10/30/13 6:05 PM, Syd Bauman wrote:
> I'm with Peter, here. While I trust James completely, if we're
> setting up a procuedure for the fuutre, it's just a *way* bad idea to
> allow one of the competing chef's to have fingers in the pie.
>
> And while, in general, I have no objection to having my own vote
> known, in principle I prefer secret ballots in situations like this.
> (That is, when those casting ballots are casting them on their own
> behalf, not their institution's behalf -- as I've said before, the
> elections for Board and Council by institutional representatives
> should not be a secret ballot.)
>
> All that said, I bet 80% of the time there's complete consensus on
> who should be chair.
>