[Mmwg] Results of the Election

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Ok, I believe that at this point, the election of the co-chairs have  
ended.

22 out of 35 people voted.

The results:


David Allen  (8 votes) - 36% of those voting
Robert Guerra  18.18% - (8 votes) - 36% of those voting
Wolfgang Kleinwachter (12 votes)  55% of those voting
Jacqueline Morris  (16 votes) 73% of those voting

By the requirements in the charter it takes 2/3 (67%) vote to be  
elected.

So Jacqueline is definitely elected as one of the two co-chairs.    
Congratulations and thanks.

At this point, while Wolfgang has a majority vote, he does not have 67%.

Aand I am not sure what to do.  Do we need to have a runoff election,  
or is there a chance we can reach consensus.  Please let the list  
know.  In the meantime, Jacqueline is a chair of the group.  And if  
she (and the groups) wants I will assist her while we are trying to  
resolve the co-chair issue.

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Obviously, this first experiment at voting leaves some learning to be  
done.  In addition to not having reached a full 2/3 on the vote for  
one of the candidates, I received some other comments.

- Instead of forcing everyone to vote for 2 people perhaps it should  
have been set up for up to 2 votes.

- should be using open source facilities instead of a .com commercial  
facility.  Note I could not find any open source based facility but  
would surely prefer to have used such a system.

- people's passwords should have been auto-generated instead of my  
sending them out to people.  I do assure you all that I did not abuse  
my having access to all the passwords.  Also, for their to be auto- 
generation of passwords, it would have been necessary to give out  
people's email addresses, which opens up a spam risk.  This should be  
discussed further.

- I should have included candidate biographic information for those  
who don't know everyone.

- Nomination process should have been clearer and more formalized

These comments are all valid and merit discussion, especially in  
terms of any recommendations the Wg might make that include voting  
mechanisms for any of the follow-on mechanisms.

thanks to all those who voted and commented.

a.

ex MMWG coordinator