[Board] EP Board Election

[Jessica Woolford]

Just wanted to send an update about this. I have not yet opened voter
registration, because I wanted to think through the technicalities of only
having two candidates. I'll open it today.

Here are our candidates:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/193VTsPf9CNVGPL2x14dJP4hoHOgfeWrG_G98RpHt-C4/edit?usp=sharing

It looks like in the past, we have done "approval" voting for such cases:
https://www.opavote.com/methods/approval-voting

In a nutshell, this means we can have voters choose to approve one or both
candidate (though I wish there was a way to have them approve the slate).
As long as they each receive some votes, they will be considered approved.

I will bump all the dates up a week in the timeline. I'm also thinking I'll
announce the nominees to the general list when the election starts instead
of when voter registration opens to give us a little time to collect email
addresses while discussing this approach (if we need to).

Does this sound like a good plan? Anyone have any objections?

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 5:31 PM Jessica Woolford <jwoolford at biblio.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to iron out some board election details ahead of next week's
> meeting.
>
> It looks like we will to fill 2 positions, both for 3 year terms, correct?
>
> I have the Opavote account information from Terran. We will need to pay
> for the election if there are more than 25 voters (which I presume there
> will be): https://www.opavote.com/pricing
>
> We paid $20 for last year's election.
>
> Here is the timeline I propose:
>
> Call for nominations: Monday, January 20th
> Nomination deadline: Friday, February 14th
> Nominees announced and voter registration begins: Week of February 17th
> Voter registration ends, voting begins: March 2nd
> Voting ends: March 20th
> Results announced: Weeks of March 30th
>
> That gives 4 weeks for nominations to come in, two weeks for voter
> registration, 3 weeks for voting, and a week to compile results. I am open
> to other ideas, of course!
>
> Thanks!
> Jessica
>
> --
> Jessica Woolford
> Evergreen Systems Manager
> Bibliomation, Inc.
> 24 Wooster Ave.
> Waterbury, CT 06708
> 203-577-4070 ext. 105
>


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Jessica Woolford
Evergreen Systems Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
24 Wooster Ave.
Waterbury, CT 06708
203-577-4070 ext. 105
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