2020 Elections
Voting process
We will use OpaVote to collect and count votes: https://www.opavote.com/about
For all positions with multiple openings, we will use a ranked choice (also known as single transferable vote) voting system. This system “promotes majority support, discourages negative campaigning, provides more choice to voters, minimizes strategic voting, promotes minority representation."
See more details at this link: http://www.fairvote.org/multi_winner_rcv_example
The vote counting will be done with the Meek method using the Droop quota to determine the number of voted needed to win. More information can be found in this paper: http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.NSF/Files/meekm/$file/meekm.pdf
Schedule
Deadline for candidacy for executive election - April 1
Executive election voting - April 6- 10
Deadline for candidacy for governing board election - May 1
Governing board election - May 11 - May 15
Note that any individual may be nominated for multiple positions, and may accept the nomination for all of them (except that they may only accept nomination to a single Executive Team position). If elected, any nomination for a subsequent election in this cycle will be voided. Candidacy for each election will be made public a few days in advance of the voting period.
