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

[Ian Peter]

Congratulations Sala, and many thanks to Jeremy who has done a fantastic job
at a crucial time.





From: Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Sivasubramanian M
<isolatedn at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:40:51 +0530
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Announcing the results of the 2012 IGC coordinator
elections

Congratulations Sala. :)


Sivasubramanian M




On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:48 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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