On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 08:54:53PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 10:16 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 05:57:26PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
And then there were five... I think we should have board elections ASAP. I believe that we have approved the voting method. Is there anything stopping us from starting the election process?
The one thing I want to get hammered out is how the actual voting will take place. I've done enough research to convince myself that there's adequate 3rd party voting tools available that we needn't implement something ourselves. But we'd need to set up and test the software, and then sort out how to specify who can actually cast votes.
Once those are done, then yeah we should hold the elections ASAP. I was hoping to have time to work on it this past weekend, but didn't.
Would it make sense for us to designate an election committee of, say 3 people, to handle these things, and announce and run the election? Maybe that would get it done faster.
That is a good idea. Perhaps three non-board members?
Maybe, although people that'd be suitable for the committee would likely be excellent candidates in their own right. And I'd worry that'd make for a conflict of interest.
The one site I've looked at so far is:
Their service is free for elections lasting 7 days, with up to 20 candidates and 50 voters, or double that for $5. The form has us provide a list of candidate names to select from, and upload a list of valid emails who will be emailed the voting directions, secret access codes, and links. Alternatively or in addition, we can download a list of secret codes to provide to voters some other way.
The form allows selection from about two dozen different types of voting methods, including ten different types of STV(!)
There are other sites that provide STV services; this is the only one I've looked at.
Bryce