[governance] Criterion for charter voting

[Deirdre Williams]

I agree with Parminder. If you have a written charter then it seems to me
that you are obliged to obey your own rules, no matter how inconvenient that
may be. And if you wish to change the rules, and you have an established
process, then that process should be followed. A couple of days ago Avri
pointed out the desirability of further discussion if indeed the charter was
being amended. It is not entirely clear whether the second vote is on an
amendment to the charter or whether it is seeking agreement for an
individual instance of a change in the process of establishing nomination
committees, for this time only.
I would suggest that the second vote should be considered invalid.
Considering the discussion during the course of today it might be wisest in
fact to run both polls again, separately, and give careful consideration to
the order in which the polls are taken.
Or at least that is how it looks from here
Best wishes
Deirdre

On 29 September 2010 11:17, Fearghas McKay <fm-lists at st-kilda.org> wrote:

> But the election has not completed so for new voters you haven't voted in
> the last election, only the current running one.
>
> The whole election process was meant to be reviewed but it didn't seem to
> make it to the top of our todo lists. I think it does need to be revisited
> soon both for some version of Proportional Representation and procedural
> tightening up.
>
>     f
>
>
> On 29 Sep 2010, at 14:32, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know if I should weigh in, being co-coordinator, but not running
> the election, but this is exactly what I think: first I voted in the
> election, then I voted on the charter.
>
> On 9/29/2010 8:28 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>
>
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