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25 new of 332 responses total.
aruba
response 165 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 05:32 UTC 2001

That's too bad, Dan.  I sure wanted to vote for you.
mdw
response 166 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 06:30 UTC 2001

I have this odd feeling that we've had a pseudonym nominated for the
board.  I can't for the life of me explain this feeling, except to say
that I keep thinking of sock puppets now.
keesan
response 167 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 14:32 UTC 2001

What do you estimate are the chances of the pseudonym winning a seat?
carson
response 168 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 15:33 UTC 2001

A definite article is not appropriate at this time, as a pseudonym has
not presently been identified.  I understood Marcus to refer to a past
incident, but I leave it to him to clarify.
jp2
response 169 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 16:16 UTC 2001

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other
response 170 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 16:51 UTC 2001

How does one get to the web-based vote program?
remmers
response 171 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 29 16:53 UTC 2001

When it's up, I'll post the URL here and in the motd.  I'll also
ask srw to put a link to it on the Grex homepage.
richard
response 172 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 01:14 UTC 2001

suggestion...one thing that could be done is take the list of nominees
and cross check it against the attendance list for each board meeting of
the last year or two.  and say of this set number of meetings, whatever
is a good number, who has attended and participated in the highest 
percentage?  I assume that those who regularly go to the meetings are
well aware of who's been going and who hasnt, but most of the other voters
arent going to take the time to dig up old board minutes.  they might not
realize of one person or another has been far more involved than 
somebody else.  you can take attendance at board meetings as a sign
of committment and its reasonable to take that as a strong factor in
voting.
gelinas
response 173 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 02:17 UTC 2001

O, would that were true!  I'm amazed at how many Board of Education members,
for example, never attended a meeting before being nominated.  (In Ann Arbor,
they do tend to show up now and again between the filing deadlinee and the
election.)
mooncat
response 174 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 15:31 UTC 2001

For the last year or so Bhelliom has been at almost all the meetings 
(save September 12th, which I missed as well)
aruba
response 175 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 16:47 UTC 2001

I entered item 67 about board meeting attendance.  It doesn't have
information about non-board members, but you can get that using the minutes
command.
krj
response 176 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 17:41 UTC 2001

resp:162 :: I'm not the authoritative voice here, but I think 
pthomas has not met the membership requirement listed in resp:0
in order to run for the board; he's not listed in the output 
of the !members command or in the treasurer's thank-you item
in Agora.  So unless there is a membership payment being processed,
I think Phil has 11 hours to establish himself as a member.
aruba
response 177 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 20:11 UTC 2001

That's correct, he has until midnight.
aruba
response 178 of 332: Mark Unseen   Nov 30 20:14 UTC 2001

(I sent mail to Phil after he entered #162, telling him how to become a
member.)
aruba
response 179 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 05:01 UTC 2001

OK, the deadline has passed without pthomas becoming a member, so he is not
eligible to run for the board.  All the other candidates are members in good
standing.
remmers
response 180 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 12:04 UTC 2001

And the vote program is now up and running for the board election.
Telnet and dialup users:  Type "vote" at a Unix shell prompt, or
"!vote" at almost any other prompt, to enter the voting booth.
Once there, you can see the candidate list, read their statements,
and vote if you wish.

You can do all of the above on the web as well, by visiting
http://cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/pw/voting-booth .

You can modify your vote as many times as you wish.

The polls close on December 15, at midnight.
jp2
response 181 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 17:12 UTC 2001

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carson
response 182 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 17:42 UTC 2001

I recognize that this item is not the best place to make this particular
suggestion, but I believe it would be useful to set up an alias in Picospan
that would call up the vote program.  Requiring an exclamation point
to preceed the command in Picospan seems unnecessary.
remmers
response 183 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 18:41 UTC 2001

Re #181: I disabled the program for a few minutes to correct a
mistake on the ballot.  It's back in business now.

Re #182: I agree, it'd be nice.  I guess 'i' would be the person
to address the request to.
remmers
response 184 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 18:50 UTC 2001

Also re #181:  You don't have to vote again unless you want to
change your previous vote.  I emailed everybody who'd voted so
far (7 people) about the mistake (Joe Gelinas was accidentally
left off the ballot), so you should've received that mail.
jp2
response 185 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 1 19:51 UTC 2001

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devnull
response 186 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 2 23:50 UTC 2001

I just voted.  It appears that there are more excellent candidates running
than there are slots available on the board.  Thanks to all who ran.
kaplan
response 187 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 3 18:37 UTC 2001

Better late than never, I have just put up ~kaplan/statement
remmers
response 188 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 13 16:37 UTC 2001

Reminder:  This Saturday, December 15, is the last day to vote.
The polls close at midnight (EST).
richard
response 189 of 332: Mark Unseen   Dec 14 02:35 UTC 2001

hey just though of something...what happens if there is a tie in
the voting?  say, since four new new board members are being elected
and there is a two or three way tie for fourth place?  is there
a runoff election or would the current board vote for the final board
member among those tied?
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