I see no reason not to aim for it to be as perfect as possible. I am not talking about on the
scale that the foundation elections are, simply a small group to ensure that this election is
being run as fairly as possible.

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> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:50:40 +0100
> From: thomas.holden@gmail.com
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK election commitee
>
> Seems a little excessive. This election was never expected to be perfect.
>
> 2008/9/5 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk>:
> > As you all may or may not be aware, WMUK are going to be having elections to
> > form
> > an interim board, to run WMUK and be responsible for the running of the
> > until the
> > time that the company is formed. Until now, the elections have mostly been
> > arranged
> > by those participating in them, and i feel that this is not particularly a
> > good thing
> > and I wanted to improve the legitimacy of these elections. Following
> > separate
> > discussions with Cary Bass and Tom Dalton the idea that I would like to
> > propose is to
> > have what is effectively an election committee designed to oversee the
> > running of
> > the WMUK elections. The proposed make up of this board is as follows, two
> > representatives from the UK, one person from ChapCom and one from the
> > foundation
> > board, however any of those numbers and where the members are sourced from
> > can change if a consensus for it exists.
> >
> >
> > The role of this committee would be to oversee the elections, ranging from
> > deciding
> > the timetable of events, overseeing the voting stages including the methods
> > and
> > medium the voting will take place in and finally the verifying and
> > announcement of
> > the results. I hope that this would allow the UK board an amount of
> > legitimacy in the
> > running of WMUK in the eyes of the UK community and also the foundation.
> >
> > If the UK community has no issues I would like to offer my services to
> > organise this.
> > Comments would be grateful.
> >
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