2024/2025 GAGB Executive Committee Elections

[Administrator]

Information and a timetable for this year’s GAGB Executive Committee election are set out below.

All GAGB members are eligible, and encouraged, to participate (stand, nominate, vote). As long as you are an ‘active’ member (defined as having interacted with us at some point in the last three years), you will receive a ballot to your registered email. Inactive members are able to request one after that.

This year, there will be one election for the eight Committee Member posts. Each candidate needs to receive two nominations from active members to be valid, and the nominee must ‘accept’ the nomination in the forum thread by the due date. For clarity, there is no Chair election this year as the Chair post is a two-year term.

Executive Committee Election (8 vacancies, 1-year term)

Nominations open: 00:00 Friday 8 November
Nominations close: 23:59 Thursday 14 November (7 full days)
Deadline to accept nomination and submit manifesto to IRO: 23:59 Friday 15 November
Q&A opens: 00:00 Saturday 16 November
Q&A closes: 23:59 Wednesday 20 November (5 full days)
Vote: 00:00 Friday 22 November - 23:59 Thursday 28 November (7 full days)
Result announced: Friday 29 November

The newly elected Executive Committee Members will take office on 1 December 2024.

Nominations

Nominations shall be made using the forums. There will be a dedicated thread, within which members can post and second nominations, as has always been the case.

In addition, as a new alternative, nominations can be submitted via email to elections@gagb.org.uk. This inbox will be checked at least once per day, and all email nominations will be posted in the forum thread, either by the IRO or an Administrator.

Nominations need to be seconded prior to the nominee accepting or declining. A member wishing to second a nomination can either post in the forum thread or email elections@gagb.org.uk. As with the initial nominations, all seconds received via email will be posted in the thread.

Those wishing to nominate via email must provide their GAGB username in order to verify whether a nomination is valid.

The option to send nominations over email, to then be made viewable in the traditional forum thread where all nominations made will feature, follows the current committee’s review of the election process and aligns with feedback received from our GAGB Friends, who were consulted earlier this year on this matter.

Independent Returning Officer

We are pleased to confirm that Patricia Elkins (MsPatt), of the Texas Geocaching Association, will be returning to oversee the election as our Independent Returning Officer. MsPatt will reintroduce herself and make further announcements in due course.

[Patricia Elkins]

Hello GAGB Members:

I have excepted the returning Officer role for the GAGB annual elections. I look forward to assisting with a smooth and fair nomination and ballot process.

The Administrator has provided the dates of the nominating and election periods in the post above mine.
Note there is an E-mail for nominations as well.

At your Service
Patricia Elkins / MsPatt
GAGB Returning Officer