On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:36:03PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > Is it really useful to go through with the election process when the > > outcome is already known beforehand? > > The outcome is not known yet: it is possible for there to be anywhere > up to 7 candidates who get in because we use the single transferable > vote system. > > For the system to work correctly, it relies on people voting only for > the candidates that they want on the board (which is not necessarily > all 7 candidates) in their order of preference. This means that if one > only wants 5/7 candidates to be on the board, then one should only > vote for 5 people, not for 7 people. As there is a minimum number of > votes that each candidate has to get before they make it onto the > board, this could mean that some candidates do not reach than > threshold. > > Here is an example of how the vote counting works: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Example
And what would happen if less than 7 candidates are elected? Would the board be composed of only 6 or 5 people for the year to come? Or would there be a new election period where more candidates can apply, with a second vote? Voting this year is a bit bureaucratic… Maybe a lot of people will not take the time to vote. Is there a minimum percentage of vote participation required? If yes, it would be good to remind the Foundation members about that. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
