[Tccc] Call for Nomations for TCCC Officers

Joe Touch touchatisi.edu
Fri Aug 31 12:35:00 EDT 2012



 Hi, all,

A quick reminder - self-nominations are fine.  

Joe

On 8/30/2012 2:33 PM, Martin Reisslein wrote:
> Dear TCCC Members,
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> In accordance with the TCCC bylaws, I am sending this mail to solicit 
> nominations for candidates who would want to run for the positions.
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> The call for nominations will close at 12, noon, on Sept. 28th, 2012.
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> TCCC has three elected officers, with responsibilities as follows:
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> (1) Chair
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> The Chair sets overall direction and policy, in consultation with other 
> officers and the TCCC membership, coordinates the activities of other TCCC 
> Officers, chairs the TCCC meetings, represents the committee in the ComSoc 
> Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), and initiates elections for vacant 
> officer positions. The chair, in consultation with the other officers, also 
> approves or denies requests for TCCC to technically co-sponsor conferences 
> and workshops.
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> (2) Vice Chair
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> The Vice Chair fulfills the duties of the Chair in his or her absence.
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> (3) Secretary
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> The Secretary maintains the TCCC web page and mailing list(s), deals with 
> questions regarding mailing list postings and web page, arranges for meeting 
> facilities for TCCC meetings, announces these meetings to the TCCC 
> membership, compiles minutes of the meetings, and participates in the 
> discussions of the TCCC Officers.
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> Officers are elected for renewable terms of two years.
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> Nominations are requested for all three offices.
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> Eligibility Requirements
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> Any member of the TCCC can nominate candidates, including himself or herself. 
>  At the time of election, candidates must be members of the IEEE 
> Communications Society, IEEE Communications Society Affiliate or IEEE 
> Communications Society Sister Society.
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> Candidates nominated must agree to serve before being put on a ballot.
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> A candidate may run for more than one office. If a candidate is elected for 
> an office, he or she is removed from consideration for lower office.
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> Procedures:
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> All nominations must be made via email to the address reissl... at asu.edu. The 
> nomination must include (a) the name of the candidate (b) the email of the 
> candidate and (c) the position that the nomination is for. All nominations 
> must be received at the above address at or before 12, noon, on Sept 28th, 
> 2012.
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> The details of the balloting procedure will be circulated on the TCCC mailing 
> list after the close of the nomination period. All members of TCCC who are 
> registered on the mailing list specified at 
> http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/mailing_list/index.html will be eligible to 
> vote in the 2012 elections.
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> For each position, all TCCC members will rank candidates in their order of 
> preference, 1, 2, 3, etc. It takes a majority to win. If anyone receives a 
> majority of the first choice votes, that candidate is elected. If not, the 
> last place candidate is defeated, just as in a runoff election, and all 
> ballots are counted again, but this time each ballot cast for the defeated 
> candidate counts for the next choice candidate listed on the ballot. The 
> process of eliminating the last place candidate and recounting the ballots 
> continues until one candidate receives a majority of the vote.
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> More details on runoff voting can be found at 
> http://www.fairvote.org/irv/faq.htm.
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> ----
> Martin Reisslein
> Professor
> School of Electrical, Computer,
> and Energy Engineering
> Arizona State University
> Goldwater Center, MC 5706
> Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA
> reissl... at asu.edu
> phone: (480)965-8593
> fax:   (480)965-8325
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