I asked a question here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_...
and here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Arbcom_elections
basically I think it's a good idea to confirm the voting system for our arbcom elections, including how the election winners will be ascertained, in nice good time :-)
Interestingly (to me!) - a question concerning the role of the Foundation / The Board / Jimbo has come up, and I realise that I don't really know how accurate my understanding that the Foundation aren't really involved is. Further - User:UltraExact mentioned that s/he might have seen some analysis on past elections done somewhere (or maybe discussion of exactly this kind!) - so I thought I'd ask if anyone else has come across it, or could even link to it :-)
I'll just myself quote from the wiki page above; "I'd assume (and propose, and support) the straight forward election of 7 people to the vacant seats, with seats 6 and 7 filling the recently resigned posts, and hence being up for re-election sooner than their peers. By 'straight forward' I mean 'highest percentage of support' - and I really hope that this is uncontroversial enough to get broad approval well ahead of time :-) "
I'd be very interested to hear thoughts and further discussion both here, and 'on-wiki' :-)
best,
Peter PM.