[governance] Re: IGC Coordinator Election 2015

Mon Jan 12 05:05:03 EST 2015

Dear All,

On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none of
the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
(regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
"None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
in the poll.

I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of their
right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now because
the person claims this is at least the second election he is making this
request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep track
of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are mostly
handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the request
might fall through the cracks again at the next election. Hopefully, we now
have a template including the "none" option which will be carried over into
the next elections.

I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
list needs to be aware of it.

Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,

Mawaki

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
> person.
>
> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using your
> human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is this:
>
> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to
> this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation
> to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator election"
>
> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included in
> the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>
> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record and
> make sure you receive your ballot.
>
> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send you
> a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to participate
> in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search engine.)
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
> Best regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>
>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports
>> you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just
>> sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line:
>> Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us
>> know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>
>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>
>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>
>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
>> hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
>> IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
>> full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
>> me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
>> the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>
>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>> the last 2 months?
>>
>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>> for your understanding.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>
>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>> coordinator.
>>>
>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
>>> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For
>>> the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre
>>> Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>
>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>
>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
>>> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>
>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>> =====================================
>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>> Founder
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>>> =====================================
>>>
>>
>>
>
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