[ELECTION CLOSED] Index Council V2: Nomination Thread and Process

[mel.eth]

gm @Matthew_Graham -

@Matthew_Graham

Hi @mel.eth,

There are rumours going around the election tooling has some embedded biases built in. I hope to clarify these concerns. Can you confirm there are no inherent biases built into the model? Concerns have been raised that there is preferential treatment within the voting to support someone from each next being elected. The rumour goes that 4 people from one nest could be disadvantaged relative to a single applicant from another nest.

The current structure does not give preference in any way to any contributor based on nest affiliation and voters are free to collude or vote independently as they see fit. I believe your questions relating to how the voting mechanism works can be found within the linking here:

@mel.eth

Choice Vote will be used to enable contributors to vote for their Index Council representatives. We have seen success using this platform in similar election processes such as the Funding Council, Autonomy Group and the first Index Council.

Great call-out on the COID requirement. There is not (afaik) COID guidelines that have been widely accepted by the DAO, and COID disclosures have been voluntary. A call for action in this regard was surfaced here, but nothing formalized. That said, this is not a ‘requirement’ but rather a suggestion within the main post:

@mel.eth

Candidates are expected to write a short summary (max 300 words) which may cover topics including:

I’m watching you edit your response in real time while I’m responding to it, so if there are additional questions or concerns I will pick them up in a subsequent response when this space cools off