Candidates for the Board for July 2017 Election – 2 seats
The AMT Board consists of 5 members who serve for one year each. Two of the seats are up for election in June 2017: Chris O’Sullivan and Rachel McConnell. The other 3 seats will be up for election in six months.
| Stage | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nominations open | 16 May 2017 | “CLOSED” |
| Election Opens | 21 June 2017 | “now open” |
| Election closes | 7 July 2017 | “now 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 O’Sullivan | To follow through on groundwork laid down over the last year. | Update Bylaws to enable smoother operation of organization. |
| Brendan Doherty | I am interested in steam education, self taught vacuum tube maker and am a marketing and PR pro. I have served on school boards at charter public schools and believe in science. | Strengthen communications and community engagement, as well as integrate school involvement. |
| Nico Scherm | I’ve been an AMT member for about a year and I like the community and am interested in seeing AMT grow. Being on the board seems like a good way for me to be more involved in AMT’s community. | I’m particularly interested in seeing AMT meet its goals for more diverse membership. I’d love to see that happen and to be a part of making it happen. |
| Connor Bennette | Feeling more comfortable with my current duties, I’d like to elevate to a formal leadership position. Have a say in guiding the organization towards efficient data process | Establish process around network, tech, data, support, and documentation. |
| Devin Schorger | I want to help AMT keep growing and improving. I am very interested in the goal for a stronger community, which is part of why I would like to get more involved. My use of the word grow wasn’t meant as strictly membership acquisition. Diversity leads to a stronger community, and the goal to be fully staffed and to show more appreciation for the AMT leaders would greatly benefit from more socialization. | I would like help organize a periodic social event for members and guests. |
The nomination process takes place between May 16, 2017 to June 21, 2017. Candidates can announce their candidacy any time up to June 21, 2017 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 vote, you must be a full member (not provisional member) of Ace Monster Toys in good standing (paid dues recently) as of June 5, 2017.
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”]