[ga] Election: Letter to the GA Chair, please endorse/sign!

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

[I ask other GA members to endorse this appeal to the Chair
by co-signing this message.]

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Dear GA Chair,

the NC Transfer Task Force, from which you have resigned,
will start their work with a conference call next week.

During the nomination phase of the election, the GA expected
to send one representative. Three candidates have come forward
to become this (single) representative. Now, there is the
possibility that two or three representatives (one voting,
one or two non-voting) can be sent. The election cannot be
changed midway without distorting the GA voters' choice:
It would lead to an automatic election of candidates.
The GA voters should therefore have the right to choose
whether to send any of the candidates to the Task Force.

Since elections during the upcoming holidays would be
very inconvenient and the Task Force work is about to begin,
we ask you to quickly start elections for a GA representative
on the Task Force, following the approach suggested by
Jonathan Weinberg
(http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg03615.html):

  On the ballot, allow GA members to vote YES/NO on each of the
  three candidates.  The rule would be that the candidate with the
  most YES votes is the representative, and the next highest
  vote-getter is the observer, except that a candidate will not be
  deemed elected to *any* position unless he receives YES votes
  on more than half the ballots submitted.  That gives the GA
  the option to elect two people if it chooses, but it also gives a
  majority of the GA the ability to say that it doesn't want
  particular people representing it on the TF (as either
  "representative" or "observer").

Please make sure that the GA is represented on the Task
Force, and please act quickly, so that the Secretariat
can set up the election in time before the holidays!

Regards,
/// Alexander

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