Third Quarter
2001 Report of the Election Committee
USGenWeb Election Committee.
Report # 5
October 15, 2001
The Following Quarterly
Report is submitted to the Advisory Board of the USGenWeb Project: The
AB requested the EC to host a Poll to determine the opinions of the Project
members in the SW/SC Region for a replacement for an AB member who had
resigned. Just as the Poll was scheduled to get underway the server, that
hosts our voting software, was attacked by a virus and the Poll had to
be re-scheduled. While the University's server was down the University
made the decision to upgrade their operating system. Once that was done
it was found that our voting booth software was unreliable under the new
operating system. Larry Stephens therefore wrote an opinion form and tallied
the votes by hand. The Poll was completed with no problems and the results
were sent to the AB and the Membership at Large.
During the course of the
last 6 months the EC had lost 3 committee members. A request for volunteers
was posted on the appropriate e-mail lists and on the EC's Web Site. After
due discussion and votes the 3 new members were chosen and submitted to
the AB for final approval. The AB approved the volunteers and they have
now been seated on the Committee.
With the EC at full strength
again the EC will be working on the following:
Determining what the problem
is with the Voting Booth Software and solving the problem. Completing the
work on setting up a data base that will allow Volunteers to self register
for any election, allow the EC members to maintain the information in the
data base and produce verification reports by State for the SCs prior to
any election. During the elections and day to day operations of the EC,
the EC has found some things in the ESC Guidelines that were wonderful
ideas but that didn't work during the election and during day to day operations
and found things that should be in the guidelines that are not. Therefore
the EC will be working on revising the Guidelines to reflect these needed
changes in the coming weeks. We will be formulating some working procedures
to standardize the handling of nominations, self-registration and general
working procedures for regional teams. The first term for part of the EC
will be over Jan 1st, therefore the EC will once again be requesting volunteers
during the month of December.
Linda Haas Davenport
Chair, USGenWeb Project
Election Committee
