Hi Allan, On Tue, 2022-06-07 at 15:15 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > When I went to vote, I was uncertain how many seats were up for > election. I've dug into it, and from what I can tell, this election > is > uncontested? Board terms are two years, the board has seven seats, > and > last year we elected three directors (Thibault, Alberto and Philip), > meaning that four seats up are open this time round. > > Is that correct?
Andrea has given the official answer already, per https://vote.gnome.org/2022/rules.html we are filling four seats in this election. However, this does not mean that all four candidates win automatically - we still have to elect everyone who will replace the outgoing directors. To be elected under STV, a candidate must meet a threshold number of votes (see https://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=32 for example, the threshold is 28). So, if any of the candidates are not acceptable to you, you may submit your ballot without voting for them, and just vote for 0, 1, 2 or 3 candidates in your preferred order. Any candidate that does not achieve the threshold number of votes cannot be elected, so we'd fill fewer seats than are open, and I guess we will need to re-open nominations and re-run the election. Some election systems have a "none of the above" option that makes this very explicit, but it's probably timely to remind voters that not voting for a candidate does behave differently to ranking all four by preference. (Also, although I don't believe it's the case this year, in GNOME's bylaws the order in which directors are elected can sometimes have an effect. The affiliation and new non-member director requirements can eliminate a candidate and require the counting process to appoint the candidate with the next highest number of votes.) > Allan Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list