[governance] Announcing the results of the 2012 IGC coordinator elections

[Deirdre Williams]

Congratulations Sala and thank you Jeremy for all your hard work over the
last two years.
If I can help with the Charter review please let me know
best wishes
Deirdre

On 20 October 2011 07:18, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> Here is my report of the 2012 coordinator elections, as outgoing
> coordinator and returning officer.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
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