[Board] EP Board Election

[Chris Sharp]

Sounds sane to me.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:07 AM Jessica Woolford <jwoolford at biblio.org>
wrote:

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