Re: Minutes of the board meeting of April 29, 2019



On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:35 AM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> wrote:
I guess these plans are news to most members.

I had suggested a similar change a couple years ago. My intention had nothing to do with the operations of the board; I just want to make our elections more meaningful and competitive. When we have seven candidates up for election at the same time, we need to have significantly more than seven candidates running for the election to be very meaningful. You probably remember that we had an election recently (I believe it was 2017) in which there were exactly seven candidates, so the vote was not very meaningful. Having an election of, say, 9 people for 7 positions is not really a contest to see who the community wants to elect, it's just a contest to see who won't finish last. Reducing the number of open seats should (hopefully) result in significantly more-competitive elections simply by reducing the number of open seats relative to the number of people running for the seats. Having fewer seats open should hopefully also result in less-confusing elections, because having an election with significantly more than seven candidates is a lot to keep track of for voters.

All board members must still be elected on a regular basis, every two years. Two years is pretty frequent. I don't think this undermines the sovereignty of the electorate. And we get to replace 3-4 directors per year, which is significant. The proposal seems like a good compromise between chaos and responsiveness to the electorate.

Michael




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