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The Elect board and the External Affairs Committee

The Elect board is one of the three legislative houses. Within the domain of external affairs, the Elect Board is represented by the External Affairs Committee.

Existence of the elect boards

For groups in Size Regime Small, there is no Elect Board. In this case, when some role is given to the Elect boards or to the Elect boards and the Delegate Pyramid, then the Forum fulfills that role.

The Elect Board

The elect board is a small group of elected representatives.

The External Elect Committee of the Elect Board handles external affairs, and the full Elect Board handles everything else (see Division between internal and external functions). The full Elect Board is not responsible for external affairs and cannot overrule the External Elect Committee. Similarly with the Program Committee.

Each member of the External Elect Committee is also a member of the Elect Board.

Members of the Elect Board are styled Director.

How the boardmembers are chosen

The boardmembers are directly elected by the voters by [1]. The necessary and sufficient condition for any elgible voter to be included on the ballot is self-nomination. Self-nominations may be withdrawn. The Office of Procedure shall announce the self-nominations as they come in.

There is an election to the elect board after one electoral cycle duration has elapsed since the previous election. A measure to call early elections may be adopted by the Forum (and may not be vetoed), in which case an election happens sooner. All of the boardmembers are replaced (or reelected) each election.

On each ballot, two values may be assigned to each candidate, one value for their suitability for the Elect Board, and the other value for their suitability for the External Elect Committee. First, reweighted Score Voting is used to select the Elect Boardmembers based upon the Elect Board suitability values. Next, all candidates except for the new Elect Boardmembers are removed, and finally, reweighted Score Voting is used to select the External Elect Committeemembers based upon the External Elect Committee suitability values (out of the pool of the Elect Boardmembers).

How many boardmembers are there?

The number of members in the Elect Board is 0 when n < 25, 3 when 25 <= n < 64, and 5 for larger groups.

The number of members in the External Elect Committee is 1 until n = 64, at which point it becomes 3.

Rules of order

The proceeding of an Elect board are governed by the board rules of order.

No replacement

If a member becomes unavailable or is removed, they are not replaced until the next elect board election.