[Serusers] [Serdev] Technical board: Secret vs. public voting, suggested amendment to the rules

[Greger V. Teigre]

I have received no comments and have updated 
http://www.iptel.org/technicalboard/rules according to the suggestion below.
g-)

Greger V. Teigre wrote:
> Several people have on the lists and privately indicated their concern 
> about public voting and the risk that people may feel uncomfortable. I 
> have had several discussions privately on the issue and suggest the 
> following amendment to the rules for election of the technical board 
> (http://www.iptel.org/technicalboard/rules):
>
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> - The parenthesis "(by posting to one of the lists)" is removed from 
> item 6.
>
> New items:
> 9. Before nomination starts, a person and email address should be 
> identified publicly as the coordinator of the election process.
> 10. Nominations are suggested either publicly on one of the lists 
> identified in item 6 or privately to the coordinator. Each nominee must 
> accept the nomination in order to be electable.
> 11. Voting is done according to item 8 either by posting who are voted 
> for on one of the lists identified in item 6 or privately to the 
> coordinator.
> 12. Nominations and votes shall be anonymously posted to an iptel.org 
> webpage and kept updated regularly by the coordinator. The coordinator 
> shall keep all posts and private emails with votes as an assurance that 
> the result can be verified by a third party.
> 13. Voting shall be open for seven days.
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>
> I'm sorry this becomes elaborate, but I believe that by being very 
> explicit and detailed on the technical board, we may avoid trouble later.
>
> Unless there are change suggestions, comments, or objections within the 
> end of the nomination (end of day Monday), I will amend the technical 
> board rules and proceed to the voting step.
> g-)
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