[AFS3-std] Second Draft of Standardisation Document

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Thursday, September 04, 2008 05:48:53 PM +0100 Simon Wilkinson 
<simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:

> My intention was that any eligible voter may nominate or second. Nominees
> need not be eligible. Eligible nominees may self-nominate. If that's
> acceptable I'll work up some better language to clarify this.

Works for me.

>> I believe it is made clear elsewhere that a potential vote-taker
>> can be nominated, but then must not serve as a vote-taker.
>
> Yes - potential vote-takers who are candidates must recuse themselves
> from the vote-taking. I think that this is clear in the document as it
> stands.

Note that there's a minor chicken-egg thing here, which is that the 
vote-taker also takes nominations, and so we might end up in a situation 
where the only vote-taker must recuse himself, and someone else has to take 
over.  The process as written will deal with this, though.

>>>    Eligibility to vote is determined by those who are subscribed
>>> to, or
>>>    have posted to, the standardisation group during the time
>>> period from
>>>    the 1st of June to the 1st July of the appropriate year.
>>
>> I can't remember if this was discussed, or if so, whether we
>> reached consensus.
>
> It was discussed, IIRC.

Ugh.  Sorry; I wasn't actually referring to the text quoted.  I was
referring to the question I was about to ask...

>> Should the chairs post the list of eligible voters at some point
>> before elections begin?
>
> Perhaps. At what point do you think they should do so? Do we need
> measures to allow the electoral roll to be challenged, or is this all
> getting too complicated?

Formally, probably not.  But we do need an opportunity for people to notice 
errors and point them out before the roll is set in stone.


-- Jeff