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Congratulations Sara,<br>
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Julián<br>
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El 20/10/11 06:18, Jeremy Malcolm escribió:
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<div>Here is my report of the 2012 coordinator elections, as
outgoing coordinator and returning officer.</div>
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<div>99 valid votes were cast. Of these 14 (13.33%) were for
Songitu Ekpe, 26 (24.76%) for Asif Kabani, 8 (7.62%) for Imran
Ahmed Shah, and 51 (48.57%) for Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro. I
declare Sala as the next coordinator of the IGC.
Congratulations! Many thanks also to the three runners-up, who
are encouraged to re-apply next year.</div>
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<div>6 people began completing the ballot, but indicated that they
had already voted in the election or did not respond to that
question, so they were not given the opportunity to vote and did
not do so.</div>
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<div>In addition, there were 13 informal votes, from those who
verified their eligibility to vote and were given the
opportunity to do so, did not avail of that opportunity. This
probably reflects the preference expressed by a couple of people
to me off-list for there to be a "none of the above" option.
The charter is silent about this, but because it defines
membership for the purposes of charter amendment as only
including those who voted in the last election, I did not feel
that a "none of the above" option was unambiguously
constitutional. I was probably also influenced in this by my
experience of other electoral systems, which do not allow for
a "none of the above" option.</div>
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<div>In future if we want to allow people to vote for "none of the
above", in my view we should include this in the charter
explicitly. I will put this on the table during the charter
review process that I have volunteered to coordinate now that I
have ended my term. My personal opinion is that such an
amendment would be a bad idea, because it lessens the
responsibility on all of us during the pre-election period to
ensure that there is a slate of candidates at least one of whom
everyone would be happy with. (To avoid misunderstanding, I am
not imputing to those who voted informally this year that they
were unhappy with all of the candidates who stood.) But what do
you think?</div>
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<div>The list of voting members will be updated on our website
soon, probably within the next 48 hours. Izumi and I will also
be briefing Sala on her new role.</div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color:
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