[GSA Council] Voting System URGENT Motion to Vote on

[Keroles Riad]

I vote FOR online voting.

It is more inclusive (allows everyone to vote), cheeper, and more accurate.

To the point made by Mudassar:
1) GSA used this exact online system for its accreditation, successfully and smoothly; we have tried to get accredited twice before without online voting and failed both time.

2) the graduate student association in Mcgill only uses online voting- so we are not reinvinting the wheel.

I encourage all of you to vote yes

Thanks
Kero

Thanks
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On Fri, 3/24/17, Mudasser Akbar <academic.advocacy.gsa at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [GSA Council] Voting System URGENT Motion to Vote on
 To: "meeting facilitator" <meetingfacilitator.gsa at gmail.com>
 Cc: "GSA all contacts" <gsaconcordia at lists.resist.ca>
 Received: Friday, March 24, 2017, 8:44 PM
 
 I believe the online
 voting system should be addressed to a larger graduate
 audience and then taken into consideration. 
 We should go ahead as
 previously discussed
 with the ballot voting on the 11th and 12th ONLY for
 which we are prepared. We should also take into
 consideration and do a fair
 bit of studies
 of the system that is going to be in place of which we
 know
 nothing about. I have not seen how the
 system works neither do we know how
 it is
 handled, managed and who administers it on the other end of
 the
 system. CSU as an example is a much
 bigger body than GSA and they do not
 use the
 system and there would be good reasons behind for which we
 can talk
 to their executive time to
 understand why but now is not the time for it.
 
 On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:35
 PM, meeting facilitator <
 meetingfacilitator.gsa at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 > Hello  all,
 >
 > We have just been
 informed by the DOS that we are not allowed to have both
 > online voting systems and polling stations
 in place. Thus, we have to
 > select one
 of them and proceed accordingly.
 >
 > So, we would appreciate the Councillors
 feedback on the following motion:
 >
 > BIRT The voting for 2017-2018 elections
 will be carried out through
 >
 "Online Voting" only with no polling stations.
 >
 > We require your votes
 on this issue by tomorrow the latest in order to
 > proceed with the necessary setup and
 coordinate with the DOS. Please email
 >
 me if you are FOR, AGAINST, or ABSTAIN. Since this vote is
 being conducted
 > by email our bylaws
 require everyone to participate for it to be valid.
 >
 > I know that a few
 last minute items have been sent for your attention and
 > thank you all for your time.
 >
 > Carlos
 >
 >
 >
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 >
 >
 
 
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