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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
So voting will no longer be anonymous then?
It is planned like that, yes. Sounds like this means a problem for some. If so, please elaborate.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Why we need to drop Maemo's voting system...
Not needed really, we may as well decide to use the voting engine.
BUT it was the assumption that
1) the number of members wouldn't be really high
2) the number of board candidates needed (3) will be hardly met.
3) board candidates are expected to be reelected unless they really mess up

The last point obviously needs some clarification:
First, we need to distinguish between representative and regular board members:
Representative board members are those that need to sign at court and that are authorized to fully represent the association. They need to be EU citicens or residents.
Regular board members may add up to the representative ones. They don't need to register at court and no restrictions apply to their nationality or residence.
In our case, MC eV board is designed to constist of at least 3 representative board members, a chair and two Deputy Directors. Any two of these three Board members together are authorized to fully represent the association (4 eye principle). So while all three have access to the bank account, only two together can take action.

This means that every change of the 3 representative board members needs to be filed to court.
Much more problematic is getting new people from various (EU) countrys to have access to the bank account. This has been an issue for HiFo eversince.
You see, a high fluctuation rate in board positions is not exactly desirable and also not very common in similar associations.

The maemo voting engine is designed for Council elections and utilizes the single transferable vote (STV) voting system which designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat constituencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
This is not what's needed for Board. We thought it would be better to put it like this:
Vote for candidate A (Yes/No/abstention), vote for candidate B (Yes/No/abstention) and so on.
Those with a majority of Yes-votes get in, those with a majority of No-votes are out. Simple as that.
In order to hold elections this way, but anonimously, maybe we can establish a second voting engine that works like this for Board elections.
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