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

Thu Oct 20 11:16:37 EDT 2011

Congratulations Sala - great to see Pacific women's leadership!

Joy

From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf
Of Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
Sent: Friday, 21 October 2011 12:27 a.m.
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Jeremy Malcolm
Subject: Re: [governance] Announcing the results of the 2012 IGC coordinator
elections

Dear All,

Firstly this is humbling and I thank you sincerely for your confidence and
hope to serve you. I would also like to thank my comrades Songitu, Asif and
Imran, and hope that you run again next year.

I would also like to thank Jeremy for the nomination and Bill for seconding
it and all those that supported it. I do no intend to fill in nor try to
fill in Jeremy's shoes - they are far too big :) Jeremy as we all know has
done tremendous work and so I thank you Jeremy. I look forward to being
briefed by Jeremy and Izumi.

I am actually in Seoul waiting for my flight to Dubai which leaves in 3
hours.

Again thank you for allowing me the privilege to be your serve you.

Best Regards,

Sala

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, 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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