Current Nominations for the Board for June 19, 2014 Election

• David D.
• Drew D.
• Mischa S.
• Robbie T.
• Atom B.
• Steve S.

We have three seats up for election for a year long term (Al, Drew, David D). Two seats will be up in December (Sergio, Rachel).

Process

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The AMT Board Consists of 5 members. We’re going to use a Condorcet voting process. Everyone gets to rank the available candidates from 1 to 10 (or however many there are), then some complicated algorithm determines the result that everyone hates least (aka most fair). The nomination process takes place between now and June 14, with voting taking place on the June 19 meeting. Candidates can announce their candidacy any time. Feel free to nominate yourself. No robots, or humans with more than 49% robot content.

To be eligible to vote, you must be a full member (not provisional member) of Ace Monster Toys in good standing (paid dues recently). You must vote in person or give your proxy to another member to vote for you.

Nominations will close on June 14 so ballots can be prepared. Ballots will be printed out in advance of the meeting and will be as described below. Voting will start at the start of the meeting, 7:30, and continue until 8:00. We expect that it won’t really take very long for even those with several proxies to fill out the ballots, but if more time is needed we can wait a bit. At 8 the president will collect the ballots and count the votes in the presence of all members who wish to stick around for that. Results will be announced immediately, to those attending and then by email to the discussion list. If any of the nominees are not in attendance we’ll try to give them a call, but will at least email that they were elected.

History

We did all of this in 2010, [[2011 Board Election|2011]], 2012, 2013, and early 2014.

Vote Calculator

Here is an [http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~yaping/Condorcet/condorcet/ application to count the votes]so that I don’t have to learn the algorithms by hand.Site dead. [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/civs_create.html Here’s a new one]

Rank each candidate by how much you like them, lowest number is best (so if there are 12 candidates, and you liked Bob the best, you’d write 1 next to him)

Sample Vote

Give the following 6 candidates:

• Bob
• Jackie
• Sally
• Bill
• Jimmy
• Carol

Your favorite is Bill, so you put a 1 next to him, then you go down, putting a 6 next to your least favorite, Jimmy.

• Bob 3
• Jackie 4
• Sally 2
• Bill 1
• Jimmy 6
• Carol 5

Now you take the numbers and put them on a single line:

3,4,2,1,6,5

And that gets entered into the vote calculator

Results