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<font size="2" face="DejaVu Sans Mono">Hi Linda,<br>
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I see. Helmut also told me about this. That's something we will
have to look at. Perhaps nowadays many e-mail servers have very
strict policies. The CRO address is aliased to my email and who
knows, may be som e-mail servers now reject this.<br>
<br>
Thanks again<br>
<br>
Hernán<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Den 2026-11-09 kl. 14:16, skrev Linda
Karlovská:<br>
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<div>Hello Hernán, thanks for the organization! </div>
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<div>I actually got only one email from you - the one without the
link to the voting. I checked my spam folder and found that the
first email with the link had dropped there. </div>
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<div>Seems like technology always fails in one way or another, one
always has to be on guard :-)</div>
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Od: Helmut Kudrnovsky via grass-psc
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Komu: GRASS-PSC <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org"><grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org></a>, Hernán De
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Datum: 9. 11. 2026 13:32:11<br>
Předmět: Re: [GRASS-PSC] Notes on the GRASS PSC election 2026</aside>
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<blockquote data-email="grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org">Thanks for the
results, German!<br>
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Though I can't remember that I've got an email link for the
voting system itself.<br>
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I'm travelling at the moment, so I could missed something...<br>
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Kind regards <br>
Helmut <br>
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Am 09.11.26, 12:13 schrieb "Hernán De Angelis via grass-psc"
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new<br>
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Elections are now finished. I already posted the
results. Here come some notes I believe are important to
remember about this election.<br>
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Best<br>
<br>
Hernán<br>
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Communication<br>
<br>
In this election, communication with the community was
primarily done through Discourse because we do not have
general mailing lists anymore (only one for the PSC). I
get the impression that not many people read these
forums, as measured by the read count (however reliable
this might be) and the responses that these messages and
announcements triggered.<br>
<br>
I sent reminders of important actions as direct e-mails
to eligible voters. This was much more effective than
posting in the forums, as measured by the number of
responses (nominations, votes, replies). Another benefit
was the detection of invalid addresses and direct
feedback from people who do not wish to participate.
This is important because the voting process relies on
e-mail and from previous experience I know that some
people may get surprised by an invitation to vote. By
removing these addresses early-on we focused our efforts
to the group currently interested in the project.<br>
<br>
I suggest that in the next election, posting in the
forums is complemented with direct e-mails to call the
attention of the community to events that require
action, like nominating and voting.<br>
<br>
The announcement of the start of election was also
published in GitHub Discussions as "Announcement" with
the aim of increasing visibility among active
contributors. It is difficult to assess how effective
this was in terms of catalyzing participation. However,
it is a simple action with little cost, so I suggest we
also do this in the next election.<br>
<br>
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List of voters<br>
<br>
We started with a raw list of 271 eligible voters. After
completing some entries, removing incomplete ones,
invalid addresses, and people who expressed the wish not
to participate anymore, we were left with a curated list
of 206 eligible voters to start with. As a result of
this and similar filtering in previous elections, I have
a list of names and addresses to remove or change from
any new preliminary list of voters in the next election.<br>
<br>
It has been suggested to limit voter eligibility to
people who have contributed within a given time frame
before the election. This may be a question the PSC may
want to discuss.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Election statistics<br>
<br>
A total of 79 out of the 206 eligible voters
participated in the election, a participation of 38%. Of
these, 58 were complete responses (voters chose 5
candidates out of 8), 1 was a partial response (voter
gave 2 definite votes for 2 different candidates), and
20 were null votes (voters chose 0 candidates out of 8).
Considering only the 58 complete votes, the
participation was 28%. The remaining 127 eligible voters
did not to participate (62%).<br>
<br>
We had a higher number of registered voters than in 2024
(206 vs 146), practically the same vote count (58 vs 59
complete votes, 79 vs 82 for all votes), but a lower
participation (28% vs 40% for complete votes, 38% vs 56%
for all votes) and a much higher number of
non-participants (127 vs 64, or 62% vs 44%). In both
this election and the previous one, the total number of
registered voters, the vote count, and participation
were all lower than in 2020. See table.<br>
<br>
Election | Registered voters | Voted (complete) |
Participation (complete) | Voted (null, incomplete) |
Participation (null, incomplete) | Voted (total)
Participation (total) | Did not vote | Rate<br>
2026 | 206 | 58 | 28 % | 21 | 10 % | 79 | 38 % | 127 |
62 %<br>
2024 | 146 | 59 | 40 % | 23 | 16 % | 82 | 56 % | 64 |
44 %<br>
2020 | 245 | 98 | 40 % | 67 | 27 % | 165 | 67 % | 80 |
33 %<br>
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Null and incomplete votes<br>
<br>
As in previous elections, we had once more a number of
null and incomplete votes and again I do not understand
why. We have also discussed this before.<br>
<br>
The survey was explicitly set to enable both a minimum
and a maximum of 5 responses, meaning that a voter had
to select exactly 5 out of 8 candidates. One possible
explanation for the null votes is that the system
possibly does not let voters to open the link more than
once. If a voter opened the link, had a quick look, and
then closed the page without sending the vote, then it
may register as null. In order to reduce the impact of
this potential issue I added a note in the e-mail
templates encouraging them to open the link only once
when they vote.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, I do not have an explanation for how
a person could submit an incomplete vote for only two
candidates when the system had an explicit minimum of 5.<br>
<br>
Everything seemed normal and uncomplicated when I voted.
Did any of you experience problems? In that case I am
happy to hear your perspective.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Closing comments<br>
<br>
Apart from the minor problem of null and incomplete
votes, I believe we had a fairly smooth process this
time, from the initial production of a list of voters to
the announcement of the results. Thanks to Vero and the
PSC members that contributed in various stages.<br>
<br>
Once more, I had a fun time contributing to the GRASS
project as CRO. Thanks to the PSC and the community for
the trust you put on me.<br>
<br>
<br>
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