[bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election

Mon Sep 4 01:49:01 EDT 2017

I support you Renata, and thank you for being part of this.

Best,
-Michael

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> Thank you Imram and Dave
> I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can
> consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights
> is a go :) Unless there are objections.
>
> I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps.
> And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other
> volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or
> tasks.
> There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us.
>
> Best,
>
> Renata
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM,  <imran at igfpak.org> wrote:
> > Dear Jeremy and All,
> >
> > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits Steering
> > Committee Election perfectly.
> >
> > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering
> Committee".
> >
> > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who
> (at
> > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could
> > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be
> > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities,
> whereas
> > election is also an important activity.
> >
> > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering
> > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us.
> >
> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them
> >> with
> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing
> >> list, if required.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing
> > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also
> > available to assist you if and when required.
> >
> > Thanking you and Best Regards
> >
> >
> > Imran Ahmed Shah
> >
> > Founder, President & Executive Member of
> >    Linguistic Internet Council,
> >    Urdu Internet Society
> >    Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org>:
> >
> >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in.
> >>
> >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members
> >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced.
> >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of
> >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the
> >> submit button on the page.  (The former figure might not be completely
> >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click
> >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a
> >> malware scan.  But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.)
> >>
> >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than
> >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I
> >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering
> >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for
> >> "no candidate".  With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for
> >> election was 32 votes.  In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on
> >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected.
> >>
> >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at
> >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position.  Of
> >> the remaining 48:
> >>
> >>   * 3 voted for the election of a only single member
> >>   * 4 voted for the election of only two members
> >>   * 4 voted for the election of only three members
> >>   * 12 voted for the election of only four members
> >>   * 7 voted for the election of only five members
> >>   * 18 voted for the election of all six members
> >>
> >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows:
> >>
> >>   * Nighat Dad: 38 votes
> >>   * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes
> >>   * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes
> >>   * Dave Burstein: 37 votes
> >>   * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes
> >>   * Antonella Perini: 31 votes
> >>
> >>
> >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but only
> >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error!  So I feel bad
> >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering
> >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as an
> >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this.
> >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal
> >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice that
> >> there should be a steering committee of six.  Nevertheless, I leave this
> >> for the new committee to decide.
> >>
> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!  I would
> >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with
> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing
> >> list, if required.
> >>
> >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software in
> >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me know
> >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeremy Malcolm
> >> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> >> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> >> https://eff.org
> >> jmalcolm at eff.org
> >>
> >> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
> >>
> >> :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::
> >>
> >> Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt
> >> PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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