[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines - elections in two rounds

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 7/14/07, oscar van dillen <oscarvandillen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> my personal idea and proposal to structurally improve both turnout and
> involvement of the community in future wikimedia board elections is:
>
> replace the round of endorsements by a *real* first round; whether capped
> or
> no, it is a semi-vote still or at least a poll, so we better have
> *an election in 2 rounds of boardvoting;
> *the first round open to all, with mandatory personal identification (as
> is
> the case anyway);
> *the second and final round only with the top candidates, who have
> received
> sufficient support in the first round.
>
> this would make the elections more into a community-process imho


I second this suggestion whole-heartedly. Under such a system, I might even
seriously consider running myself...



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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]