Forum:User Rights Elections Voting Process (add on)

I wasn't sure what to call this.

I have OOC permission to run this vote.

As the voting process is going through a major change, I thought it might be best to bring this to the community in order to make sure we're all on the same page.

The topic of the vote is what happens when there is only one candidate. Recently, the procedure has been too automatically allow them into the team as there is no other option. However, personally, I'm not quite comfortable with this. One of the arguments in the previous vote was that the community (more so the general community) should have more of a say in who enters the team. However, automatically allowing someone into the team removes everyone's voices.

So what I propose is this: we still have the candidate go through a vote with the options being 'for' and 'against'. Even if we all vote for that user and just becomes a rubber stamp of sorts, at least the candidate can say the community voted them into the team. It'd still be run through google forums so it would be anonymous. For all the other votes (where there is more than one candidate), then the options would simply be 'for' with the assumption that if you found someone unqualified then you would vote for one of the other candidate.

In the case that the candidate is voted against then what would happen is that the position is left open until someone else is nominated, even though it is not the most ideal situation. It does risk a department being overworked. However, one of HR's responsibilities is to help out the other departments when they are overworked (this can be found here).

Option One: Allow candidates to be automatically accepted into the administration team if they are the only candidate.

Option Two: If there is only one candidate running then have them be required to go through a 'for' and 'against' vote regardless. It would still be run through google forums and be anonymous to everyone but a few admin members.