[governance] Important Information re Upcoming Election

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" (via governance Mailing List]

Thanks Ian and Tapani.
Looking forward to it.

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, 11:38 am Ian Peter, <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>
> one more piece of information I forgot to include:
>
> The candidate with the most votes gets elected for a two year term, and
> the candidate with the second most votes for a one year term. This puts the
> election of co coordinators back into sync.
>
>  In the event of a tie, the length of terms will be decided by the toss of
> a coin.
>
> Ian
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> To: "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> Sent: 9/09/2019 8:21:53 PM
> Subject: [governance] Important Information re Upcoming Election
>
> Dear IGC List member,
>
> Within the next 48 hours you can expect to receive an email inviting you
> to vote in the IGC Co coordinator elections for 2019. We will notify you
> again when the messages are dispatched. If you do not receive the message,
> you may want to check your junk email or spam filters in case your software
> has filtered the message from this mass mailing. Also – if you have been on
> the mailing list for less than 2 months, you may not receive the email.
>
> If you have more than one email address on the IGC list, you will probably
> receive multiple messages: so if you know that is the case, you might like
> to advise us now as to which email address you would prefer.
>
> When you do receive the email, it will include a link specific to your
> email address inviting you to vote.
>
> Voting is for people who identify as civil society and meet the basic
> conditions to be an IGC member. So before you get to vote, you will be
> asked some basic questions about your status. If you know you are not a
> civil society member, or if you have received another email asking you to
> vote, you can just ignore the email if you like. Or you can proceed to the
> questions which will verify your entitlement to vote.
>
> If you are entitled to vote, we strongly encourage you to do so, as it is
> only by voting that you can be a member of the IGC.
>
> When you have answered the qualifying questions, you will be taken to a
> page which lists the three candidates, and also the additional option “none
> of the above”. You can vote validly by selecting one candidate, two
> candidates, or “none of the above”. (The “none of the above” option exists
> so that, if you have no preference among the candidates, you can still
> register a valid vote this way and thereby be registered as a member of
> IGC).
>
> When you have done this, you will be asked to confirm your choice – and
> that's it! Shortly after that you will receive a letter confirming that you
> have voted: and if for any reason you made a mistake, that letter contains
> a link where you can go back on line and change your choices (only the last
> vote you do will count).
>
> HOW VOTING WORKS
>
> After voting has closed, the Returning Officers will verify the votes
> received and announce the results. Please note that if you vote for two
> candidates, this records a vote of equal value for each candidate selected:
> this is not a preferential voting system.
>
> When you receive your voting email, we think you will find the process
> very straight forward and easy to follow (thanks in no small part to the
> small group of list members who assisted us with testing and refining the
> software!) But if there are any problems – you can always start again, and
> additionally we are here to help if you have any problems.
>
> That's the basics of the process – we will let you know again when we have
> sent the voting emails so you can check and make sure yours has arrived.
>
> We look forward to your participation in this important election for IGC.
>
>
>
> Ian Peter and Tapani Tarvainen
>
> Returning Officers.
>
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