[sakai2-tcc] Governance proposal: Tiebreaking votes

[Matthew Jones]

Barring no objections, the governance document is changed it incorporates
the opinions from this discussion.

- In a future TCC election if there is a tie, a run off election will be
held among the tied candidates following the same election procedures.
- If members are still tied after the election, a virtual coin toss will be
held when only two tied candidates are left.
- The coin toss method may change, but currently it will be via
http://cointossr.com/ between the chair and vice chair. The candidate who
is represented by heads and tails is arranged prior to the toss when the
chair sends the link to the vice chair.

- Special Rule: Feats of strength may only be used to determine tie
breakers when two tied candidates are in immediate proximity of each other,
such as during the Sakai conference. (Festivus exception)


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>wrote:

> 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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