[bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election

[Dave Burstein]

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First, let's thank Jeremy Malcolm for the work he did.

Second, let me make a motion to the new steering committee to add Ms.
Perini, who clearly has interest and experience.

Lots of work to do.

Dave

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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> 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 Foundationhttps://eff.orgjmalcolm@eff.org
>
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