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Hello everyone, |
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after the nomination period has been over and preparations have been done, |
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voting has opened for the Gentoo Council 2013/2014 election. The full list of |
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candidates and their manifestos can be found at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/2013/council-201306- |
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nominees.xml |
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Further instructions for voting can be found in your home directory on |
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woodpecker (aka dev.gentoo.org), and in the motd. |
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The rules for the Council election as well as details on how to vote for this |
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election are available in the Council Elections Archives[1]. In any case, here |
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is the quick procedure on how to vote using votify: |
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* If you're eligible to vote in this election, log in to dev.gentoo.org |
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* Type votify --new council-201306 to create a new ballot file |
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* Edit .ballot-council-201306 file in your home directory and rank the |
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candidates |
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* Once you're finished, use votify --verify council-201306 command to verify |
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the validity of your ballot file |
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* If everything is okay, use votify --submit council-201306 to submit your |
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vote. Don't forget your vote doesn't count until you submit it. |
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* If you run into problems, you can either work them out yourself using |
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votify --help or contact election officials and ask them for help. |
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The elections for the Council include the pseudo _reopen_nominations |
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candidate. If the pseudo-candidate '_reopen_nominations' appears in 7th place |
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or higher those candidates that rank above '_reopen_nominations' will be the |
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current council. A second period of election will be opened for the remaining |
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council seats. No third period of election will be opened in the event |
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'_repoen_nominations' ranks higher than the candidates necessary to fill the |
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council[2]. In case there's a need to fill a seat during the council term due |
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to a retirement, a new election must be held to fill that seat. |
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The results will be announced once the election officials have ratified the |
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results. |
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If you have any questions, feel free to contact (elections at gentoo dot org), |
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or #gentoo-elections on Freenode. |
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Happy voting! |
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[1] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/elections/council/ |
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[2] - |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20090212-summary.txt |
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For the elections officials, |
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Theo |
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