[sakai2-tcc] Governance proposal: Tiebreaking votes

[Matthew Jones]

Per governance, voting is by lazy consensus. If there are no -1 votes
within 3 working days, the issue is approved. I just amended a
clarification to Seth's initial proposal which I'd proposed on the first
day and was agreed on by Anthony.

I believe it's unlikely Feats of Strength will ever be initiated.


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:13 PM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at indiana.edu>wrote:

>  Sounds good to me.  +1  (seems like we should have an official vote for
> this)****
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> *From:* sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Matthew Jones
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:50 AM
> *To:* Aaron Zeckoski
> *Cc:* sakai2-tcc Committee
> *Subject:* Re: [sakai2-tcc] Governance proposal: Tiebreaking votes****
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> Barring no objections, the governance document is changed it incorporates
> the opinions from this discussion.****
>
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>
> - 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.****
>
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>
> - 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)****
>
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> 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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