[Board] EP Board Election

[Jessica Woolford]

Thanks for the feedback, Andrea. That makes sense.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:25 AM Andrea Buntz Neiman <
abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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>>
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> Andrea Buntz Neiman
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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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