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

[Hugh Cayless]

If I understand what's involved, James wouldn't really have his fingers in any pies. Whoever sets it up just inputs the candidates and the email addresses of the voters, the correctness of which are verifiable by the voters. So any shenanigans would be obvious. 

I will volunteer to coordinate the setup if it's needed/wanted. 

Hugh

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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 18:05, Syd Bauman <s.bauman at neu.edu> 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.
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