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Candidates for the Board for January 2018 Election – 2 seats
The AMT Board consists of 5 members who serve for one year each. Three of the seats are up for election in January 2018 : Jacob LaBay, Pierre Grandin and Mark Johnsen. The other 2 seats will be up for election in six months.
| Stage | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nominations open | 19 December 2017 | ”Open” |
| Election opens | 15 January 2018 | ”Open” |
| Election closes | 31 January 2018 | ”not Open” |
Nominee List
| Name | Why I want to be on the board at AMT | One or two things I would get done if I was elected |
|---|---|---|
| Chris C. | I want to help out | Keep AMT running |
| Pierre G | I’ve been serving on the board for 2 terms already and I feel like our current board is really getting better as a leadership team. We are better organized and more efficient than in the past. I’d like to continue being part of that team and help support our organization. | We are still understaffed in the officers department, and need to address this. I also want to continue the work to improve the efficiency of the officers / directors relationship, which will ultimately lead to a better leadership team as a whole. |
| Patrick Safinya-Davies | I’d like to help with the decision making process to advance the mission and goals of AMT as an organization and maker space. | If elected, I would like to find more opportunities to bring our maker community together with the greater community. I’d also like to help address member concerns. Finally, it would be great to highlight all of the hard work that the volunteer staff does to make AMT function. |
| Peter Gardner | I’m new to Ace Monster Toys and would like to step up and help out in any way I can. I’m interested in big picture issues and helping to drive the vision of AMT while taking member opinions into account. | I have seen no flaws in the organization except that Rachel probably works too hard. |
| Rob Froetscher | As I am at AMT most days, I feel invested in the place and interested in helping keep it going. I appreciate the ways it has spurred me to be more creative and the community it fosters. | Keep AMT running. Be invested and interested and mindful of the direction of the org. |
The nomination process takes place between December 19, 2017 to January 31, 2017. Candidates can announce their candidacy any time up to January 15, 2018 at 9:30 PM. Feel free to nominate yourself. No robots, or humans with more than 49% robot content, may be nominated.
To be eligible to run you must be a member (provisional or full) for at least 30 days as of date of nomination and in good standing (no incidents, dues current, etc).
To be eligible to vote, you must be a full member (not provisional member) of Ace Monster Toys in good standing (paid dues recently) as of January 15, 2018.
All full members in good standing will be emailed a link to vote with on the evening June 21, 2017. The online poll will close on July 7, 2017 at 11:30 PM. The polls will be closed and results announced via email and slack. Finally, the wiki page will be updated with the new directors.
History
In previous years we used paper ballots and all voters had to attend the meeting in person to vote, as described in the pages for all the past elections. It was often difficult to get quorum, as many members can’t attend Thursday meetings, and others don’t feel strongly about Ace’s governance and choose not to come. It is our hope that an online poll, open for a week, will allow all full members to participate by making the bar to vote a lot lower.
Condorcet Voting
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). 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). The Cornell site has a lot more detail on Condorcet voting, as does Wikipedia.
Sample Vote
Given 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
All of the voters’ preferences are taken into account in the calculated results, so it’s possible that a candidate with a lot of second place votes will win over a candidate with some first place and some last place votes. “Least Hated” is the goal.
Results
PENDING
Full results are listed at [”TBD”]