[sakai2-tcc] Governance proposal: Tiebreaking votes

[Matthew Jones]

Per TCC governance, this proposal would be adopted by lazy consensus within
3 days if there are no objections.

Does anyone have any thoughts or objections to this? I'm not too sure about
the virtual coin toss, but if it were to be done it should probably be
clarified as to use the previous method (http://cointossr.com/) and be
tossed between the current chair and vice chair. As well as a screenshot of
the result recorded in the TCC voting results (I.E. Tails=Candidate 1,
Heads=Candidate 2)

Another idea is having the current chair (or person collecting the votes)
either abstaining from voting (if they cause the tie) or casting a vote
between the top tied candidates to break the tie.

I don't feel strongly either way, and hope there isn't another tie, but
it's good to have something documented. I'm okay with coin toss. As far as
election coming up. . .


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> During the last TCC election cycle, we had a tie in the Vice-Chair
> voting which was never anticipated in our governance documents:
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/TCC+Governance
>
> We have another election coming shortly, so I would like to make the
> following proposal for breaking ties in elections:
>
> "In the event of a tie among candidates, a run-off election will be
> held among the tied candidates following the usual procedures. The
> candidate with the greatest number of votes in the run-off is elected.
>
> If two candidates are again tied after the run-off, a virtual
> coin-toss will be held to determine a winner.
>
> If more than two candidates are again tied after the run-off,
> successive run-offs will be held until a coin-toss needs to be held
> (when are only two tied candidates are left) or a winner is determined
> by the greatest number of votes."
>
> Seth
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