Nominations are now open for the Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Board of Directors. Nominations will close December 8. An online election will be held December 15 through December 30. Terms of office begin on January 1, 2015, and are two years in length. This election is for ONE SEAT. TS Taylor's (tsty) seat is open. Grex membership is a requirement for serving on the Board. Any current member of Grex who has paid at least 3 months' membership dues and meets state of Michigan eligibility requirements may run for and serve on the Board. If you are not a current member, you cannot be a certified candidate in the election, so please be aware of this requirement. To be valid, a nomination must be accepted in this item by the nominee, but the nomination does not need a second. Self-nominations are allowed and will be interpreted as also accepting the nomination. Nominations must be accepted by 1700 EDT, December 14, 2014, to allow time to confirm the list of nominees before opening the polls at midnight. While anyone may cast a ballot, only the ballots of members will be counted for the election. The voteadm will probably count the non-members' votes and report their results as well. If haven't updated your membership in a long time, please do so before the start of voting, so your vote will count! $6 (3 months membership) will get you a voting membership if you do it right before the election starts. Memberships are $18/year or $2 per month. See: https://grex.org/member.xhtml PayPal links are provided and you can choose to pay in $18 increments or $2 increments. Or you can pay by check, but beware that it needs to reach the treasurer prior to the election.24 responses total.
I nominate Chuck Martin (unicorn), Denise Anderson (denise), and Steve Andre (steve).
Thanks for the nomination, Kent. However, right now I will need to pass due to a number of different ongoing health issues. Once I finally get well in one area, something else happens or several concurrently. This has been an extra stressful 18 months and I am just wiped out. If there are things I can do every now and then when I'm healthy, I'll be happy to help out but I don't want to actually be on the board or to step in as treasurer until I'm on more solid footing.
Thanks for considering it, Denise. I hope you are well soon.
Any more nominations? Nominating period ends Dec. 8. Please consider running or nominated something you think would be good for the Board.
s/nominated something/nominate someone/ in resp. 4 We're running out of time, so I hope someone will step up and either accept a nomination or nominate someone.
I nominate slynne, cmcgee, remmers and mary.
Nominations are now closed. There is still time to accept a nomination in this item (1700 EST Dec. 14 is the cutoff for accepting a nomination).
Okay, I'll accept the nomination. I was debating whether to do this or not, especially since I haven't been very active here in a long time, and considering my Internet access is very limited at the moment and my finances are limited as well, but as long as I can call in for board meetings, I should be able to do it. I just paid for a year membership, since I haven't been a member since I was on the board before, and I couldn't really accept the nomination without it. Am I in time for that, since the voting hasn't started yet? I didn't want to accept the nomination unless I was sure I could make the meetings. I don't like to make commitments, and then not take them seriously, and I really should support grex more, anyway. Due to my limited Internet access, any meeting attendance that requires streaming video for an extended period of time is out, so I'll need to attend by phone. Just let me know how to do that.
That's fine; we can totally conference you in by phone if that's easier.
You are in time. The deadline for nominations was Dec 8, but the deadline for acceptance of a nomination is Dec 14. Thanks for accepting. Phoning in is fine. The video part isn't all that necessary.
Re #2: I hope that your health improves over the next year.
With but one candidate, voting will be pro forma. Still, we will hold a vote. I can set the beginning and ending times, but the introductory text will have to wait until the candidate list is complete. The sooner, the better, from my point of view. ;)
Okay, 1700 EST has come and gone on Dec. 14, 2014, so the opportunity to accept a nomination has elapsed. I see we have one user who has accepted their nomination prior to this deadline, Chuck Martin (unicorn). I have seen his membership payment come through the PayPal account for another year of membership, so I can certify that he is a valid member for purposes of this election.
The polls will open one minute into the new day and close one minute before the end of the penultimate day of the month. So you may vote between 00:01 15 December 2014 and 23:59 30 December 2014, Eastern Standard Time. And may the best candidate win.
"And may the odds be ever in your favor!"
I thought of putting that in, too, Dan. ;) The voting booth is open, but it's not yet available from the home page.
I've got the links working on our home page. I also added the link to the motd and in the announcements item in agora. The links we used previously didn't work, but I'm using https://grex.org/cgi-bin/pw/voting-booth and that drops you into the booth okay (directly). You just don't get the page before that with the choice of election.
Since there is only one candidate, I really don't feel bad about saying that I just voted for Chuck. So he's won just based on that, if nothing else.
It would be kind of sad if I couldn't get even a single vote, being the only candidate. :)
You'll get at least 2, I'm sure, maybe 3 or more!
It looks like at least 3 votes! :-)
Nine people voted in the most recent election, which ended on December 30, 2014. Nine of those people voted for unicorn. So if any of the nine were members, then unicorn has been elected to a two-year term as a Director of Cyberspace Communications, Incorporated. I am still waiting for an official list of the voters, to certify the election. However, I did recognise a few of the names as being members, so the certification is just a formality. Congratulations, unicorn.
Thanks.
Thank you for being willing to serve on the Board, Chuck! Will you let Dan know the e-mail address you want to use for the Board e-mail group? That way we can use one group list for the whole Board. We've been trying to meet bi-monthly in the past year and were pretty successful at it. We'll need to have a meeting this month, to seat new members and elect officers for the year, so expect an invite to that soon.
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