[Board] EP Board Election

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

>From the peanut gallery, IIRC when this happened before candidates were
required to get a simple majority of all participating voters. I.e. if 100
voters participated, each candidate would need to secure 51 votes.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:12 AM Chris Sharp <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> 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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