On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:35 AM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de>
wrote:
I guess these plans are news to most members.
I had suggested a similar change a couple years ago. My intention had
nothing to do with the operations of the board; I just want to make our
elections more meaningful and competitive. When we have seven
candidates up for election at the same time, we need to have
significantly more than seven candidates running for the election to be
very meaningful. You probably remember that we had an election recently
(I believe it was 2017) in which there were exactly seven candidates,
so the vote was not very meaningful. Having an election of, say, 9
people for 7 positions is not really a contest to see who the community
wants to elect, it's just a contest to see who won't finish last.
Reducing the number of open seats should (hopefully) result in
significantly more-competitive elections simply by reducing the number
of open seats relative to the number of people running for the seats.
Having fewer seats open should hopefully also result in less-confusing
elections, because having an election with significantly more than
seven candidates is a lot to keep track of for voters.
All board members must still be elected on a regular basis, every two
years. Two years is pretty frequent. I don't think this undermines the
sovereignty of the electorate. And we get to replace 3-4 directors per
year, which is significant. The proposal seems like a good compromise
between chaos and responsiveness to the electorate.
Michael
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