<div dir="ltr">Sounds sane to me.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:07 AM Jessica Woolford <<a href="mailto:jwoolford@biblio.org">jwoolford@biblio.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are our candidates: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/193VTsPf9CNVGPL2x14dJP4hoHOgfeWrG_G98RpHt-C4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/193VTsPf9CNVGPL2x14dJP4hoHOgfeWrG_G98RpHt-C4/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div> It looks like in the past, we have done "approval" voting for such cases: <a href="https://www.opavote.com/methods/approval-voting" target="_blank">https://www.opavote.com/methods/approval-voting</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does this sound like a good plan? Anyone have any objections?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 5:31 PM Jessica Woolford <<a href="mailto:jwoolford@biblio.org" target="_blank">jwoolford@biblio.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to iron out some board election details ahead of next week's meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like we will to fill 2 positions, both for 3 year terms, correct?</div><div><br></div><div>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):
<a href="https://www.opavote.com/pricing" style="text-decoration:none" id="gmail-m_4616729274820097411gmail-m_-1840797955465053327gmail-docs-internal-guid-1873a3d7-7fff-7179-d9c5-75342d954d4c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.opavote.com/pricing</span></a>
</div><div><br></div><div>We paid $20 for last year's election.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the timeline I propose:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Call for nominations: Monday, January 20th</div><div>Nomination deadline: Friday, February 14th</div><div>Nominees announced and voter registration begins: Week of February 17th</div><div>Voter registration ends, voting begins: March 2nd</div><div>Voting ends: March 20th</div><div>Results announced: Weeks of March 30th</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Jessica<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jessica Woolford<div>Evergreen Systems Manager<br></div><div>Bibliomation, Inc.</div><div>24 Wooster Ave.</div><div>Waterbury, CT 06708</div><div>203-577-4070 ext. 105</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jessica Woolford<div>Evergreen Systems Manager<br></div><div>Bibliomation, Inc.</div><div>24 Wooster Ave.</div><div>Waterbury, CT 06708</div><div>203-577-4070 ext. 105</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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