[Foundation-l] Election results?

[Jan-Bart de Vreede]

Hi

Just to make sure we don't jump to the wrong conclusion.

This is my fourth Board election. Every time we have relied on Software in the Public Interest (http://www.spi-inc.org/) do be the trusted third party. Every time they have been extremely fast and flexible in their volunteer services towards us. I am extremely grateful for all that they have done.

But when a call for volunteers is made, and their timezones differ from each other, the office (and tech support) and SPI-Inc, that complicates matters when several checks are needed to confirm and verify. 

Jan-Bart


On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Joe Gazz84 wrote:

> On 6/17/2011 9:31 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> As the Board Liaison for the election committee I would like to ask for a little more patience on their behalf.
>> 
>> Our chosen election system has several checks and balances and it does not help matters that we are making use of an independent third party and are spread out across several time zones.
>> 
>> Thank you Amir, as you stated: they are volunteers too. And I recall it was very hard trying to get people to volunteer for this rather thankless job (please feel free to volunteer for the next elections)
>> 
>> That being said, I think you will not have to wait much longer. The election committee is taking the final steps towards publishing the results.
>> 
>> Jan-Bart de Vreede
>> Board Liaison Election Committee
>> 
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> Thank you for this update, we appreciate it. I am disappointed that 
> these potential problems weren't thought about previously when choosing 
> to use a third-party. In the future, I think we need to come up with a 
> list of potential problems to prevent situations like this.
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