Re: Invitation to candidates to post position statements

Peter:

I do not think it's a matter of much extra time from you.
Cutting and pasting four statements into a ballot takes less than one
minute.
I hope that you did not over-simplified the process because you did not
have enough time to volunteer.
Not willing to do it according to P&Ps and established non written,
but obvious, procedures might become a problem. After all, because any IEEE
election
ballot includes statements, and because all previous DASC elections where
more than one candidate was nominated for a position used calls for position
statements might invalidate your work anyway. Instead of leading to that
complete waste of time, a one minute solution would fix the problem
and save everybody a lot of time.

Best of luck,

Alex Zamfirescu

P.S. Peter, thank you for helping with this. I hope you will find the minute
to do
it right. It is true that for higher level positions in the IEEE,
 statements, summary CV-s
and even pictures are included in the ballot. Contrasting that with nothing
for
the DASC officers might not convey respect. Even when people
chose horses for a race bet, they have a written statement about their
previous performance.



On 12/5/07, Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au> wrote:
>
>  Alex,
>
> I'm putting volunteer effort in good faith into running this election
> according to the published procedures adopted by the DASC. I'm afraid I
> don't have time to proceed as you suggest.
>
> Best regards,
>
> PA
>
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> *From:* owner-stds-dasc@server.eda.org [mailto:
> owner-stds-dasc@server.eda.org] *On Behalf Of *Alex Zamfirescu
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 5 December 2007 19:57
> *To:* Peter Ashenden
> *Cc:* stds-dasc@server.dasc.org
> *Subject:* Re: Invitation to candidates to post position statements
>
> Dear Peter:
>
> Your fix is not equivalent to what was done before
> (thanks for checking the history of established procedures).
>
> When the returning officer gathered the position statements
> and submitted them with the ballot all at once, the effect was similar to
> a
> "blind bid," where no one could take advantage of seeing first any other
> statement.
> What you offer as a fix/alternative is not a vote on a ballot
> containing position statements, but an open campaign during
> the voting period, with candidates being able to act on early
> postings.
>
> It seems to me that a much better solution would be to put the vote
> on hold, provide for a three day position statement submission, and
> call for the vote on a ballot which includes position statements.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex Zamfirescu
>
> P.S. The lack of objection in 2005 was probably due to the fact that
> there was no more than one candidate per position. Today I would argue
> that
> even for the positions where only one candidate was nominated, it is still
>
> interesting for our members to see a position statement. If you promise to
>
> do something, you have a better chance of doing it indeed.
>
>
> On 12/4/07, Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > Thanks to Alex for pointing out the history of candidates in DASC
> > elections
> > providing position statements. I can verify that this did, in fact,
> > occur in
> > 1999, 2001, and 2003, but was skipped in 2005 with no objection being
> > raised.
> >
> > Given the history and the wish of members, I would be grateful if
> > candidates
> > would post position statements to stds-dasc@eda.org at their earliest
> > convenience.
> >
> > Since this is not a formal requirement, and since the ballot period
> > still
> > has nearly the full two weeks to run. I would prefer not to suspend
> > voting.
> > Should any member wish to revise their vote, they can do so by
> > forwarding
> > the revised vote to me by email in the same way as the original vote. I
> > will
> > acknowledge and count the last vote received from each member by the
> > closing
> > time.
> >
> > Thanks, and best regards,
> >
> > PA
> >
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