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

[James Cummings]

Gosh we have a surfeit of those willing to run the election, 
hopefully we'll have the same for those wishing to stand.

For some reason I think it feels nice to have someone who is not 
returning (e.g. Kevin or Brett from the list of many volunteers 
so far) run the election.

You are right that with a system like opavote the only power the 
person setting up the election has is its basic configuration and 
putting in the email addresses. Since the number of votes would 
be available to all at the end it would be immediately apparant 
if there had been any form of shenanigans.  That said I've no 
problem with it being the Chair or if the Chair is running some 
volunteer (also not running) from old or new council.  We don't 
want to tie ourselves to opavote in particular (just 'an 
electronic voting system' or something) in the vague policy we 
document, so that is probably safer overall.

I won't take it personally, ;-)
-James



On 30/10/13 22:31, Hugh Cayless wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my phone.
>
>> 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. -- tei-council mailing
>> list tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>> http://lists.village.Virginia.EDU/mailman/listinfo/tei-council
>>
>>
>>
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