FIDONEWS: Объявлены выборы модератора эхи FIDO_SYSOP

Vladimir Fyodorov написал(а) к All в Nov 18 08:56:40 по местному времени:


> Согласно правилам эхи FIDO_SYSOP, её текущий модератор Vince Coen объявил
> выборы модератора эхоконференции. Координатором выборов будет Ward
> Dossche, Verifying Officer'ом - Ben Ritchey.

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* Area : FIDONEWS
* From : FidoNews Robot, 2:2/2 (26 Ноября 2018 02:21)
* Subj : FidoNews 35:48 [02/08]: General Articles
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Moderator Election for FIDO_SYSOP
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

The current moderator of the echomail conference FIDO_SYSOP, Vince
Coen, has in accordance with the rules of the echo announced that
there will be a moderator election for FIDO_SYSOP and announced it
as such in this conference.

The Election Coordinator is Ward Dossche of 2:292/854. The Verifying
Officer is Ben Ritchey of 1:393/68.

Time frame of the election:

Note that in order to keep date confusion to a minimum all dates are
shown in *nix and some European country formats, e.g., ccyy.mm.dd
hh:mm:ss - (hh is in the 24 hour clock format, cc = century).

UTC is the official replacement name for GMT & means exactly the
same.

* From now, until 2018.12.01 23:59 UTC:
Submission of candidacies and debate.

* 2018.12.02 00:00 UTC through 2018.12.08 23:59 UTC:
Voting.

* 2018.12.09 00:00 UTC:
Announcement of preliminary results.

* 2018.12.09 00:00 UTC through 2018.12.15 23:59 UTC:
Filing protests/complaints, and resolution of these by the Election
Coordinator.

* 2018.12.16 12:00 UTC:
Appointment of the winner of this election as FIDO_SYSOP's moderator
for a period of two years (24 months), after confirmation by the
Verifying Officer.

Eligibility to be a candidate and to vote:

Candidates must announce their candidacy themselves by placing a
message in this echo addressed to "Election Coordinator" with
subject "Candidate". This message must arrive at the system of the
Election Coordinator before the deadline of Saturday December 1st at
23:59:59 UTC. The sending of such an announcement direct, or as
close as you can get, to Ward Dossche at 2:292/854 and to Ben
Ritchey at 1:393/68 as a back up is recommended. The same applies
to voting, see below.

Candidates and voters must be listed as a sysop in the Fidonet
NODELIST.327 of Friday November 23rd as issued by, or on behalf of
their ZC. Other types of nodelist files will not be considered.
The address used in the echo and netmails for both purposes
(announcing the candidacy and voting), must be one that is in the
specified nodelist. No point addresses will be accepted.

Candidates may not be identified by node numbers associated with a
"Down", "Нold", "Zone", "Region", "Нub" or "Нost" entry. For example
if an RC wishes to be a candidate, s/he must use his/her regular
node number and not the "/0"-number and signed by their known name
as in the nodelist.

"Pvt"-nodes are allowed as long as they are listed with verifiable
contact information.

Nodes without verifiable listed contact information, are excluded.

The election coordinator will acknowledge the candidacy with a
message in the echo after verifying their status within the
nodelist. The Verifying Officer will do so likewise after that for
the purposes of verification.

Announcement of candidates by third parties will be disregarded.

Candidates are encouraged to post an "election platform", stating
who they are, what they propose for the echo's future and why they
think they will be up to the job.

Candidates will use their real name as listed in the nodelist,
handles or aliases will not be validated / accepted.

If there is no candidate on 2018.12.01 23:59 UTC, the election
terminates without a vote and the existing moderator is confirmed as
the moderator for the next term of two years.

If there is only one candidate, the election terminates without a
vote and that person is confirmed as the moderator for the two year
term.

If there is more than one candidate, the election proceeds.

Eligibility to vote:

Simple, see rules for being a candidate.

Voting procedure:

Voting is confidential.

A vote is cast by sending two netmails, one to the "Election
Coordinator" at 2:292/854, and a copy must be sent to the "Verifying
Officer" at 1:393/68.

The body of the netmail must contain the name of the candidate of
choice and a password or pass phrase. Please use the spelling for
the name as listed in the nodelist.

When possible do not use routed netmail, but preferably use direct
mail only. Make certain the mail arrives at both the Election
Coordinator's and the Verifying Officer's systems before the
deadline. The time stamp of the Election Coordinator's tosser will
be the deciding factor. Don't forget the system is in Europe and
will enforce UTC times.

The election Coordinator will send a copy of the vote to the
Verifying Officer to confirm that both system are seeing the same
level of votes for each candidate.

The Election Coordinator will acknowledge reception of the vote by
netmail to the voter.

A vote cast is a vote cast. No second thoughts.

Every eligible individual sysop is allowed one vote only.

After the voting is closed, the Election Coordinator will publish a
list of the passwords that were received for each candidate. The
names of the voters will remain confidential.

The Verifying Officer will confirm the results, or publish a
correction within three days of the election end date.


Submission of protests:

A protest can only be filed by an individual eligible to vote and
that has done so.

Send a preferably direct netmail to both "Election Coordinator" at
2:292/854 and to "Verifying Officer" at 1:393/68 describing your
grievances.

The Election Coordinator will examine the complaint and will rule on
it, with the participation of the Verifying Officer.

If the protest is rejected, the election proceeds along its time
line without any further action.

If the protest is accepted, the tally of the votes will be modified.

If, as a result of the protest, the number of candidates is reduced
to one, then the election ends and the remaining candidate will be
confirmed as the new moderator.

If as a result of the protest, the number of candidates is reduced
to zero, then the outgoing moderator Vince Coen is confirmed for
another term of two years.

Tiebreaker:

If after counting the votes, the result is tied between 2 or more
candidates then there will be a run off vote with the process
starting again with candidates with a lower vote count dropping out
of the election.
Ward Dossche Ben Ritchey
Election Coordinator Verifying Officer
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