[GSA Council] Voting System URGENT Motion to Vote on

Fri Mar 24 13:21:47 PDT 2017

I abstain. I wasn't in council to hear both sides of the argument and don't
feel informed enough to make an honest choice.

Melissa Tamporello
MA student Art Education
Concordia University
Montreal, QC

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Soliman A. Abu-Samra <
president at gsaconcordia.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I second Mahsa on that. There will be huge monetary savings in the
> elections' administrative expenses. Those savings could be summarized as
> follows:
>
> 1. No paper (paperless voting) - huge amount of printing costs
> 2. Space booking savings - No costs for booking polling stations (save the
> booking costs for 5 polling stations for EV, Hall, Library, JMSB, and
> Loyola buildings)
> 3. Polling clerks - there won't be a need for polling clerks as there
> won't be any polling stations.
> 4. Time savings - lot of time savings resulting from the votes counting,
> polling stations monitoring, etc. Time savings could be translated to money
> as it decreases the number of hours the CRO and his team will need to work
> to accomplish their work.
>
> We aren't the 1st to try online voting for our elections or referendum. We
> have tried it once for accreditation and PGSS McGill (McGill Graduate
> student association) is working with it since 2014 and it is showing
> promising results in terms of better outreach, more accessibility, less
> exerted energy, and less elections' costs, which could be better utilized
> to provide better services to our members.
>
> Thanks a lot and wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead!
>
> Cordial regards,
>
> *Soliman A. Abu-Samra*
> President
>
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> On Mar 24, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Mahsa Khoshab <internal at gsaconcordia.ca>
> wrote:
>
> Cuties
>
> please, feel free to review the amount regarding the paper-based elections
> in our budget allocation and the energy has to be consumed on such an old
> version of voting.
>
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> Thank You
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> Regards,
> Mahsa Khoshab
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Mudasser Akbar <
> academic.advocacy.gsa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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