Seeking Community Input: Open or Secret Ballot for TAC Elections?
Anton Arapov
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As we approach the elections for the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), we aim to align our process with our mission and values, emphasizing transparency, accountability, and community involvement. To achieve this, we seek your input on whether the TAC elections should be conducted via an open or secret ballot.
For context, during the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) elections, we opted for a secret ballot to maintain consistency. This decision was influenced by differing perspectives within our governance structure.
Due to time constraints, we were unable to conduct a community poll at that time.
We are conducting a poll to gather your opinions on the preferred ballot format for the upcoming TAC elections. Your feedback will help us balance our commitment to transparency with the need to protect voter privacy, ensuring our election process aligns with our shared mission and values.
Please take a moment to participate in the poll and share your perspective.
Anton Arapov · Mon 17 Feb 2025 8:55AM
@Benjamin A potential middle ground could be a partially open ballot, where the list of voters is made public, while individual votes remain confidential.
If there is strong support for this model, we will consider adopting it for future elections. However, since the recent poll showed a plurality preference for an open ballot, we will proceed with a fully open ballot for the upcoming TAC election.
Regarding how subsidiaries, acquisitions, joint ventures, etc., are treated for voting purposes, the approach follows these principles:
Voting is tied to the entity’s community classification at the time of the election.
Subsidiaries and parent companies are treated as separate entities unless explicitly consolidated.
Joint ventures and acquisitions follow case-by-case assessments, to ensure fairness and to avoid double representation.