On 2/26/06, Peter Crowther Peter@ozzard.org wrote:
Should we now be reflecting on the process and soliciting input from the community so that we can improve the process where necessary?
Good idea. And I do hope you'll step back into the election team now that your aspirations for a position on the board have been smothered by a last place outcome ;-)
Also, should the make-up of the elections team itself now be decided by the same process?
I wonder. It's not the sexiest of jobs, so turn-out may be very low, and I wonder what you'd do with an election result where, say, only 50 votes were cast...
Furthermore, my gut feeling is that as long as the election team tries very hard to be transparent and listen to the community, people will not care too much who is a member. I've run "real" elections. The requirement for being a candidate here for, say, the city council is 30 supporters and something like 50 or 100 euro. The requirement for manning the election bureau, however, is IIRC just a Dutch passport and no police record....