I think a proper ballot shall have 3 options: - Candidate: Yes (+1)
- Candidate: No (-1) - Candidate: Abstain (0) This ensures procedural impartiality. My understanding of current ballot is: - Yes (1st) and No (2nd): means Yes - No (1st) and Yes (2nd): means No - Yes (2nd) and No (2nd): it is default value, and means Abstain And if we want to change to a new ballot, we need to ensure those 3 options (+1, 0, -1) are still there. Regarding Uli’s question regarding what if majority votes “No”, I don’t worry about it. I personally believe that “Yes” would be majority. Everything would be fine. Even if in the unlikely and theoretical event that majority votes “No”, it only means the vacancy is not filled up. It doesn’t impact Board’s regular operation. And no impact on community’s regular activity, including D release and future release. In Silicon Valley, many startups are incorporated in Delaware. And it is very common that there are vacancies in their Board. They operated normally, and many went IPO. In this case, result is not important. Procedural impartiality is the key to the success of community. My 2 cents Thanks Bin From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raymond Paik Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:32 PM To: Ulrich Kleber <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; MORTON JR., AL <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [opnfv-tsc] [opnfv-tech-discuss] Voting for the OPNFV Committer Board Election I don't think only including one option (i.e. "yes") in the ballot would be appropriate, and I had similar (yes/no) ballots for other "uncontested" elections in OPNFV. I actually started the voting process a day early. Would people feel better if I re-do the ballot with "Chris Price" and "Abstain" as two options? As of right now, 19 people voted... On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Ulrich Kleber <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, can you help us understand what it would mean to vote “no”? What will happen if most voters would vote “no” according to the Delaware Corporation Law? ( I don’t think it will happen, but since you have allowed the option ....) Thank you, Uli From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Raymond Paik Sent: Sunday, 25 September, 2016 21:31 To: MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] Voting for the OPNFV Committer Board Election Al, Yes, maybe in future elections with only one nominee that'd (candidate & abstain) be a way to go. Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, selection by acclamation wasn't an option for OPNFV based on the Bylaws and the Delaware Corporation Law (where OPNFV is incorporated). Had to spend a lot of time with outside councils on this topic a few months ago.... Cheers, Ray On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:18 PM, MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Ray, For an election with one Candidate, I expect to vote for the Candidate or abstain. In other orgs, this would have been selection by acclamation, without the ballot. The ranking of “Yes” and “No” choices is visible to me, but choices of “Chris Price” and “Abstain” would have been more clear. The meaning of Yes/No wasn’t clear me, despite the instructions “give each of the following choices a rank…” Anyway, I think the equivalent of Acclamation is a likely outcome, and I appreciate that this must have been a corner case for you to handle with Condorcet, so if others get it, great. ☺ thanks, Al From: Raymond Paik [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 2:59 PM To: MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] Voting for the OPNFV Committer Board Election Al, Do you not see two options ("Yes" or "No")? I actually see that a few people voted already, so I'm not sure if others are also having the same problem.... Thanks, Ray On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:50 AM, MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Since there’s only one choice, the ballot page is a little confusing. It appears all you can do is click Submit, as there is no ranking to do. Al From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Raymond Paik Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 2:46 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [opnfv-tech-discuss] Voting for the OPNFV Committer Board Election All: For committers that are eligible to vote (https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/2016+Committer+Board+Election+-+Committers+List) in the Committer Board election, you will be receiving an email from "Ray Paik (CIVS poll supervisor)" to cast your vote. Please note that the email will not be coming from my Linux Foundation email address and if you can't find the email (incl. in your spam folder) in the next several hours, please let me know. As I noted in my earlier email, although we only have one nominee we still need to have an election so I encourage everyone to cast their vote. You can find the nomination statement at https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/Nomination+for+the+2016+Committer+Board+Election. The poll will close at 5pm Pacific Time on September 30th. (Friday). Thanks and let me know if you have any questions. Ray
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