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

[Sonigitu Ekpe]

Dear Sala,

Congratulations in emerging as the new IGC Coordinator.

Once gain congratulations!!!!!!!

Sonigitu Ekpe
(aka) Sea

On 20 Oct 2011 12:19, "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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