Elections organization

Election Officials

To ease the process of finding officials to run each election, we decided= to create a list of people volunteering to serve as officials in the upcomin= g elections as well as their credentials and basic information about them. Officials for each election may (but don't necessarily have to) be chosen= from among those people.

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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees Elections

Election rules, based on Gentoo Foundation Bylaws:

Gentoo Board of Trustees is composed of five elected members
Elections happen every year starting in February
There should be at least three election officials plus at least one p= erson assigned from Gentoo Infrastructure project to handle their side of t= he election. Officials are allowed to vote in the election but they aren= 't allowed to run in it. They are selected by the current Board of Trust= ees.
There's one month for nominations and one month for voting. In specia= l cases current Board of Trustees may decide to shorten that period. Anyone c= an nominate.
All Gentoo Foundation members may vote but only members of age above = 18 are allowed to run (legal requirement). To run in the election, a person = has to be nominated on the gentoo-nfp mailing list and personally acc= ept that nomination on the same list.
Members who are active Gentoo developers vote using votify scr= ipt on dev.gentoo.org.
Members who aren't active Gentoo developers should mail their GPG-sig= ned ballot files to election officials who will verify authenticity of th= ose and pass them to infra so they are taken into account while counting vote= s. Special care should be taken to ensure the ballot is signed by the gp= g key in the Foundation records.
After voting period is over, all election officials verify results pr= ovided by Infrastructure project member assigned to the election and then po= st them to the gentoo-nfp mailing list.

Gentoo Council Elections

Election rules (based on GLEP = 39):

Council elections generally happen once a year
The council is composed of seven elected members
Nominations are allowed for 15 days.
Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
Voting is opened for 15 days.
Only Gentoo developers that have joined the project before nominati= on starts may vote
Condorcet method of voting is used

There should be at least three officials for this election plus one Gento= o Infrastructure project member assigned to it to handle their side of the process. Officials are allowed to vote in the election but aren't allowed= to run in it. Nominating and accepting nominations should happen on the gentoo-dev mailing list.

Condorcet method of voting

For both Foundation and Council elections, Condorcet method o= f voting is used to count votes.

To cast votes we use program names votify which is by default inst= alled on dev.gentoo.org.

Instruction on how to use votify to cast a vote:

If you're eligible to vote in that election, log in to dev.gento= o.org
Type votify --new election-name to create a new ballot file<= /li>
Edit .ballot-election-name file in your home directory a= nd rank the candidates
Once you're finished, use votify --verify election-name comman= d to verify validity of your ballot file
If everything is okay, use votify --submit election your vote.
If you run into problems, you can either work them out yourself using votify --help or contact election officials and ask them for h= elp

Verification and publication of results

Verification and publication of results (ID sending, master ballot verifi= cation by officials, so on). Also all scripts should be posted and explained her= e.

Election archives

Links to Foundation archives.

Links to Council archives.