Well, I only went along with the four week period because it is in OUR Operating Procedures as well (well, 30 days that is). I, personally, don't care. If we want to change this, do we have to change our OP? D Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca -----Original Message----- From: Evan Leibovitch [mailto:evan@telly.org] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:30 PM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Voting Procedures for our ALAC Position - Call for Election Thompson, Darlene wrote:
2. Nomination Period: nominations shall be accepted for four weeks after the Secretariat calls for nominations (up to 12th September 2009)
Do we really need a four week nomination period? IMO this could be cut in half.
We would suggest that the online voting system used previously in various regions at www.bigpulse.com <http://www.bigpulse.com <http://www.bigpulse.com/> > (and which is used for all ALAC votes including for ALS Applications). The staff would administer these votes through the system, in all cases allowing independent verification via a URL located on the BigPulse servers which would provide the results of votes held.
I would, therefore, like to open the period for nominations starting today. We then have four weeks to accept nominations/volunteers.
I would like to propose closing the nominations two weeks from the NARALO conference call (this Monday), which would make the deadline August 16 instead of September 4 or 12. I would like for this proposal to be debated and agreed (or rejected) by consensus at the meeting. - Evan