2008/9/5 Martin Peeks martinp23@googlemail.com:
AGK wrote:
Alison: would you care to comment as to which interpretation you intended to be drawn from your Foundation-l comment?
Does it really matter, or are we having a dead horse flogging exercise?
A number of us felt considerably insulted by Alison's comments. It makes little or no difference to the chapter, but it makes a difference to us personally.
Back to the topic - while I'd have to be reluctant to support having a full elecomm micromanaging every aspect of the election, some discussion of how to go about it and some oversight may be worthwhile. Given our size, there is no need to go overboard with it, and doing so may be counterproductive.
The election will hopefully be very simple and won't require micromanagement from anyone (it's really just a decision about who does the initial paperwork, there is no significant power involved). Final decisions need to be made about timing, type of voting and suffrage, but for the most part that's been discussed and at least a rough consensus has been formed, so it would just be up to the committee to make that final. My main hope for a committee is that they can handle counting of votes in secret. Without some kind of committee, the election would have to be carried out in public, which would be undesirable.