[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC EC Elections - Voting Starts tomorrow 23 Nov 2015

[Seun Ojedeji]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org
> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> Technically changing the weights in the list is trivial (I think
> Maryam could do it in about 15 seconds), if that's what you decide.
> This is not a technical problem but a political decision.
>

SO: This is a very useful information. So there is no timing issue in doing
the right thing here.

Regards

>
> Tapani
>
> On Nov 23 12:56, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:
>
> > Hi Ed
> >
> > > On Nov 23, 2015, at 12:10 AM, Edward Morris <egmorris1 at toast.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > So rather than the 4-2-1 voting proportions used for NCSG  elections,
> NCUC elections are run using a 2-1-1 vote weighing system. In practical
> terms the NCUC Bylaws give more power to individual members, the NCSG
> Charter to large organisations.
> > >
> > > I do hope the tabulation software will be programmed to accurately
> reflect the NCUC Bylaws. We have several contested elections with some fine
> candidates and in fairness to them it would be good to use the vote
> weighing system contained in our Bylaws and not that of our SG.
> > >
> >
> > This puzzled me so I checked with Glen and Maryam as well as the 2013
> and 2014 final vote tallies I have saved on my computer.  As far as we can
> see, what we’ve done for some years now is follow the NCSG Charter's vote
> weighting rather than the NCUC Bylaws' weighting, which was defined prior
> the SG's formation. You were on the NCUC EC when we did this in the 2013
> election and I don’t recall it being an issue.  There’s obviously an
> argument for having harmonization with the later and technically higher
> level model, no?  Why should we change direction at this point?
> >
> > Unfortunately, Tapani (king of the data base) is off line today, so
> maybe we’ll hold off a day on sending out ballots until we can hear from
> him.  I’m about to get off a bouncy train in Zurich where I teach for four
> hours, and in any event have never touched the data base, so I’d rather
> make sure that our understanding fits with his.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Bill
> >
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