The MICE UG 36 meeting will be held Wednesday, October 7, 3:00 pm,
online at: https://meet.google.com/zgg-eeyu-dxz
The agenda and draft UG 35 minutes are attached.
If something goes wrong with the Google Meet, we can fall back to the
phone conference: 952-562-5400 passcode MICE (6423). Note that the phone
conference will /not/ connect you to the Google Meet meeting; this is
purely a backup plan.
*Election*
At this meeting, we will be holding an election for a board seat. The
board consists of three seats with staggered terms, such that one seat
comes up for re-election each year (at the fall meeting). This year,
Anthony's seat is up for election.
As in the past, we will close nominations in advance of the meeting so
people have a chance to instruct a proxy appropriately. *Nominations
will be open for two weeks (so until the end of September 28).*
If we end up with only one person running (like last time), then voting
is a formality. But if we end up with a contested election, we will need
to vote. I don't know of a good way to do secret balloting by Google
Meet, nor am I particularly familiar with separate services to do the
same. Suggestions are welcome if you don't like the following plan:
My current plan is to roll call for (public) votes at the meeting to
give people that option, but in practice, I'm guessing people will want
to vote by email for convenience.
The bylaws state that you send proxies to the Chief Manager (me, Richard
Laager), and electronic means are acceptable. So a simple email is
sufficient: [log in to unmask] or, if you
prefer, [log in to unmask] works too.
If you send me a /vote/ by email (e.g. "We vote for ."), I will treat
it as an a proxy appointment, appointing me to vote on your behalf, but
restricted to /only/ the election item and to /only/ vote for the
candidate you expressed. So then at the meeting, I will say something
like, "On behalf of members X, Y, and Z, I cast 1 vote for A and 2 votes
for B." This will provide /some/ anonymization (obviously, /I/ will know
how you voted).
If you send me a proxy with different instructions (e.g. "We appoint
to vote for us."), obviously that will be honored as written.
--
Richard
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