[Tccc] Call for Nomations for TCCC Officers

Martin Reisslein reissleinatasu.edu
Thu Aug 30 17:33:38 EDT 2012



 Dear TCCC Members,
  


In accordance with the TCCC bylaws, I am sending this mail to solicit 
nominations for candidates who would want to run for the positions.

The call for nominations will close at 12, noon, on Sept. 28th, 2012.



TCCC has three elected officers, with responsibilities as follows:



(1) Chair



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.



(2) Vice Chair



The Vice Chair fulfills the duties of the Chair in his or her absence.



(3) Secretary



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.



Officers are elected for renewable terms of two years.



Nominations are requested for all three offices.





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.



Candidates nominated must agree to serve before being put on a ballot.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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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