Voting procedures

IVMSP TC Award Endorsements: Voting procedures

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Below is a thorough description of the current procedure as highlighted by James Flower in July 2012.

Procedure

Nominations close August 5, 2012.

According to the TC bylaws, the "TC chair shall appoint a nomination subcommittee to recommend SPS society awards and SPS paper awards within the technical field of interests of IVMSP TC. All nominations must be approved by the TC."

The bylaws do not specify mechanisms for generating, culling, or selecting from nominations, nor do they specify the meaning of "approved by the TC." The Awards Subcommittee is committed to presenting the TC with good slates of candidates generated with as much input as possible from the TC and the rest of the IVMSP community.

The goals of our voting procedures are:

to choose the best candidate (person or paper); and
to demonstrate the overwhelming support of the TC (assuming this is the case).

We will use the following procedure.

For all nominations received by the IVMSP TC, we will hold an endorsement vote in the August-September timeframe. Each nomination will be voted on independently, and all nominations with their corresponding endorsement-vote results will be forwarded onto the Awards Board by their October 1 deadline.

A candidate will be endorsed if the net positive approval vote that represents the number of "yes" votes minus the number of "no" votes is to be greater than 50% of the number of votes cast.

All the voting members of the TC can vote on any award category but may choose to abstain on any of the questions. However, one TC member cannot vote in the category where she/he is nominated.

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