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

[Daniel Pare <d.pare@lse.ac.uk>]

Please add my name to the list of endorsements

Daniel Pare


Alexander Svensson wrote:
> 
> [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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