<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 19, 2021, at 3:50 AM, Sylvain Baya <<a href="mailto:abscoco@gmail.com" class="">abscoco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Dear PDWG,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 19 févr. 2021 12:24, Wijdane Goubi <<a href="mailto:wijdan.goubi@gmail.com" class="">wijdan.goubi@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Dear community,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Admittedly, one of the most
critical ways that us as individuals can influence the decision-making within
the community is through voting, which is a right and a formal expression of
preference for a candidate </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">for a proposed resolution of an issue.</span></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Wijdane,</div><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks for participating, Sister. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">...as you prefer *election* as the *selection* model to be used; the PDWG should then agree on at least few *criteria* to ensure that we end up with (i) a reasonable *limited* number of (ii) *sufficiently* capable candidates. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Are you agreeing to these needs?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I don’t agree that the number of candidates needs to be “a reasonable *limited* number”. If we get 150 candidates that are sufficiently capable and meet the criteria specified in the PDP, then so be it. This is yet another reason I favor ranked choice voting. Given Y candidates, people can rank the top X candidates in their order of preference where X≤Y and avoid voting for anyone they consider an unacceptable candidate. Then candidates with the least votes are eliminated, transferring the votes they received to the next preference of each voter until we have one candidate with more than 50% of the total vote who gets the longer term. Then the candidate with the next highest number of votes gets the shorter term.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Simple, clean, and very effective at identifying candidates acceptable to the community at large, regardless of the number of candidates.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Hence, making a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">set of
criteria for a WG participant to become a co-chair</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">is going
to put obstacles and barriers in front of both voters and candidates.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Therefore, I absolutely don’t go
along with the view of putting restrictions on candidates no matter what
hardships we went through during the time of the previous co-chairs otherwise <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial" class="">it might lead us to misjudgments and discrimination</span>.</span></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">...i'm sure we can also try to go ahead without </div><div dir="auto" class="">any *criteria* but i can't personally encourage </div><div dir="auto" class="">the PDWG to follow that path.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>We should seek qualified co-chairs, but qualified should be in the judgment of the electorate. We should not abdicate this authority to some arbitrary group enforcing some set of subjective criteria.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>