Subj : 2023 FTSC Standing Member Election - Preliminary Results
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Mar 20 2023 12:45 pm

Hello Andrew,

On Monday March 20 2023 02:15, you wrote to deon:

 AL> Due to the time frame of the revision being made and the closing of
 AL> the polls, the revision was made as the preliminary results were
 AL> assembled.  I personally do not agree that the revision should have
 AL> been accepted, but I was overruled by the International Coordinator.
 AL> In the future, the rules will explicitly state that ballots cannot be
 AL> altered once submitted.

I object.

During my watch there was a precedent. Bj”rn Felten, RC20, once requested that his vote be changed. I rejected the request, a vote cast is a vote cast. After some debate, my ruling was accepted by those concerned. I see that you intended to follow the precedent. That should have been the end of it.

The International Coordinator has a role in the election as primus inter pares of the ZCC when the ZCC decides to establish a nominating committee as documented in FTA-1001.007 paragraph 3.2. And that is it. Beyond that the IC is just a sysop as any other sysop in Fidonet when the FTSC holds an election.

In casu: the IC does not have the authority to overrule a decision made by the election coordinator.

I therefore insist that the ICs intervention is ignored and that it is the first vote and only the first vote of RC33 that counts.


Michiel van der Vlist, RC28.

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