These are procedures for current elections for SPF council which are
written is slightly better organized way then what I posted earlier:
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200411/0573.html
It includes Wayne's modification but is otherwise the same in principal
I would like to hear any comments people have about this and would like
to make sure that these procedures are ok with everyone who wants to
particpate in upcoming elections for SPF council
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1. The elections should be run by neutral party and can not be run
by somebody who is a candidate for SPF council himself/herself.
The person doing should insure that voting procedures are followed and
everyone has equal opportunity to participate in the voting process.
2. Everyone who has participated in spf-discuss and posted at least once
prior to original call for nominations can vote (if entire list of
people can not be created, then its everyone who had posted in the
last 180 days prior to original call for nominations).
3. Voting takes place on the web with special form where people are asked
to choose 5 candidates from the list of people who have accepted the
nomination. Vote requires confirmation by email and address used must
be one from which person previously posted on spf-discuss (see #2).
4. People are not allowed to vote more then once and its preferable that
this be insured by technical means. If by chance more then one vote
does happen, only the first one will be counted.
5. Election lasts for period of 7 days with at least one reminder sent
to spf-discuss mail list 24 hour before election closes.
6. All votes are collected and made avalable to the public within 24 hours
after the end of voting process. Each person, his confirmed email and
his vote must be listed separately.
7. After the votes have been published people must check their votes to
insure its listed correctly and have 48 hours in which to post on
spf-discuss mail list if there is a problem.
8. At the end of 10th day from the start of voting (unless serious problems
are found with presented list of votes) the summary is published with
list of how many votes each candidate received. The 5 people with
largest number of votes are asked to form SPF council.
9. Initial council has no defined term but must come up with new election
procedures and define its function and term (it SHOULD then call for
new elections once this has all been approved or it MAY specifically
make the poll and ask people on spf-discuss to confirm that existing
council can serve reminder of the term)
10.Anybody can choose to resign from the council in that case the person
with next highiest number of votes of those not elected takes his place.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net