[NCUC-EC] Ballot for NCUC BY ELECTION

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Hi all,

Realizing it's too late now and that it will not matter in practice,
I have to point out that the ballot should've been explicit about
what effect "Abstain" has, given that there's no "None of the Above"
selection available.

In most elections I know of, abstentions don't impact the outcome -
and with that Michael would be elected even if he gets fewer votes
than there're abstentions. The alternative is to interpret "Abstain"
as the equivalent of NotA so that he'd fail to be elected if most
voters abstain. Either way it'd be good to be explicit about it.

Also, as an observation, this election would clearly violate the new
bylaws (in particular the 30-day announcement limit), which is a bit
worrysome (current bylaws are vague if not confusing about it, though
it could be argued 30 days is implicit there, too).

It might be good to write up rules on how to conduct by-elections
in the future. (I've made a note to myself to do that for NCSG.)

Tapani

On May 01 00:01, farzaneh badii (farzaneh.badii at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> The nomination period  for the NCUC EC rep of NA   has now ended and here
> is the ballot for EC NA position which will be sent to those checked in for
> the last NCUC election. Michael Karanikolas was the only one who was
> nominated and accepted the nomination. Please approve the ballot  by 1 May
> (tomorrow)  8.00 UTC. Elections start at 9 UTC 1 May and will end on 23.59
> UTC May 3.
> 
> Mark exactly one box with an X for the position below:
> 
> Executive Committee – North America
> 1.  Michael Karanikolas
> 2.  Abstain
> 
> NOTES
> 
> Please note: it is permissible to vote more than once by resubmitting a
> ballot during the election period; only the last vote submitted ultimately
> will be counted.
> 
> 
> 
> Farzaneh