[sakai2-tcc] Governance proposal: Tiebreaking votes

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Proposal sounds OK to me. I would go for the virtual toss. Trying to
do an actual one is too much trouble.
-AZ


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
> Agree with Matt, the proposal needs a wee bit more clarity on how the
> virtual coin toss is to be performed and validated.  One could even hold a
> coin toss with a real coin.  Fire up a hangout, perform the toss in front of
> the camera and confirm the results visually before the voting members of the
> TCC.
>
> Either way, the proposal is a good one.
>
> Anth
>
> On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>
> 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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