2016 GC and TC election results

Elections and Voting Coordinator Zuzutoo announced the results on Monday and has given me permission to quote his post in full:

Voting has officially closed for the 2016 election for General Coordinator and Technical Coordinator of Phoenix Roleplaying. Many thanks to everyone that took the time to participate in club governance.
As a whole not a bad turn out. 18 members voted, equalling 43% of the eligible list of members (members who have logged in and posted more than once in the last year). Of that group 14 voted in the fist 48 hours, and 4 voted in the last 48 hours. A fairly consistent pattern with past elections. Oh, you want results... not statistics. Fine.
The office of Technical Coordinator, winning 94% of the vote,  goes to Euan Reid. Congratulations sir!
Now on to the big show, the competition for General Coordinator was very close. In Third Place with 22% of the vote was Dale "Soapymac" Brennan. The position of Contender with 35% of the votes goes to Rebecca "Ironette" Forte. Which means the position of General Coordinator for  2016, remains in the hands of the reigning Khalessi, Misty Diamond, holding 42% of the tabulated votes. Congratulations to all on a robust competition. Long live the Queen... or something like that.

Ironette fills the previously vacant role of Contender, but otherwise there is no change in Phoenix's top management.

2016 General Coordinator and Technical Coordinator Elections

Ballot papers for this should have been emailed to members; please email Kevin 'Zuzutoo' Diamond if you have not received yours.

Voting is open until Sunday 17 July.

Sim Development Officer appointed

Dondi (dratliff) has been appointed by General Coordinator Misty Diamond as the new Sim Development Officer.

SoapyMac becomes Deputy General Coordinator

Newly re-elected General Coordinator Misty Diamond has appointed Dale, known on the forums as SoapyMac, as her deputy.

Further appointments are likely to follow in the next few days.

General Coordinator & Technical Coordinator 2015 - Elections Results

Voting officially closed at midnight on Thursday [16 July]. Final results: General Coordinator, 14 votes for Misty Diamond, two abstaining. Technical Coordinator, 16 votes for Euan Reid, none abstaining. Total 8 sixteen voters. 9 in the first 24 hours. Thank you everyone for participating in your club governance, even with as limited of options as we have had in the last two elections.

Congratulations to our Khalessi and Euan!

- Kevin 'Zuzutoo' Diamond, Elections and Voting Coordinator

General Coordinator & Technical Coordinator Election ballots

These should have gone out to members - please contact Zuzutoo if you have not received yours.

General Coordinator & Technical Coordinator Elections

With both Misty Diamond and Euan Reid being the only candidates who accepted their nominations (ksabers declined his), the upcoming elections will be a straightforward approval vote on the incumbents as GC and TC respectively

The voting booth will open on Thursday once Misty and new husband Kevin return from ComicCon.

The election discussion thread, where you can ask candidates questions, can be found here.

Progress on Phoenix-AJJE Merger

The merger between Phoenix Roleplaying and AJJE is progressing and GC Misty Wilson has finished the FAQ regarding this merger. 

As expected, the FAQ handles the most obvious questions people might have about the merger of the Phoenix Roleplaying system and PARS (Post And Reply System) from AJJE. Members of both RPG environments need not worry that their posting system will disappear: Phoenix Roleplaying will keep its current posting system and PARS will be implemented as a separate section. All AJJE sims will be installed in the PARS section, but players from both systems, Phoenix and PARS, are welcome to try the other system; playing one or several sims in both systems is certainly possible. When the implementation of PARS into Phoenix Roleplaying is complete, is unknown at this time. (mb)

Elections and Voting Coordinator 2015 election

Phoenix Roleplaying is holding elections for the post of Elections and Voting Coordinator. As there is only one candidate this year, incumbent Kevin "Zuzutoo" Diamond, the vote will consist of a straightforward confidence vote. Voting starts tomorrow (Monday 25 May) and will conclude on Monday 1 June.

Questions can be posed to the current EVC here

Acquistion of AJJE and Ownership Policy passes

Voting has been completed. Thank you everyone for your participation with these important propositions. It should be noted that we had a 57% turn out for eligible members in this vote. That amounted to 25 out of 44. The last general election we held had only 16 participants. Your input is invaluable as we strive to keep this democratically run site meaningful and responsive to our membership. On to the results....

• Shall Phoenix Roleplaying acquire AJJE Games as proposed? Yes 72%, No 28%. The measure is passed.
• Shall Member Policy X: Sim Ownership be added to the official rules? Yes 96%, No 2%. The measure is passed.

I will now hand these proposals off to Misty for proper implementation. Thank you again everyone.

-Kevin Diamond, Election and Voting Coordinator.

Acquisitions and Ownership Vote

Ballots have now been sent out for the latest referendum on the PARS/AJJE acquisition and sim ownership.

Please contact Zuzutoo if you have not received yours.

Very important discussion taking place in Management forum

If you haven't seen it already, a key decision on the future of Phoenix will be made soon. Please look at the IMPORTANT Proposition for Phoenix thread in the Management forum (this is restricted to forum members only).

Giorgo Borgo appointed Deputy General Coordinator

Newly confirmed General Coordinator Misty Wilson has appointed Giorgo Borgo, aka ksabers, as her Deputy General Coordinator.

This is the second American-European combo in Phoenix's history; British Silent Hunter appointed American Kevin Diamond as his deputy, partly to ensure better coverage of time-sensitive issues.

Misty Wilson wins General Coordinator Election

The General Coordinator election has now been completed, with acting Coordinator Misty Wilson winning with 53% of the vote; Dale "SoapyMac" Brennan narrowly beating Giorgio "ksabers" Borgo to second place (24% to 22%) and thus gaining the title of Contender. 15 out of a possible 32 eligible members cast their vote in this unplanned election caused by the AWOL of Jason Andersen.

The same ballot also saw votes on creating the position of Phoenix Treasurer and also changing the wording of Member Policy 2 regarding canon characters appearing in a sim. These both comfortably passed with over 80% of the vote each.

Three candidates for Extraordinary General Coordinator election

Following the closure of nominations for the vacant position of General Coordinator, three candidates have accepted being put forward for the position:

• Dale "SoapyMac"
• Misty "Misty Wilson" - the current Acting General Coordinator
• Giorgio "Ksabers"

 Campaigning is now ongoing and the elections will be held on 19 December - 2 January.

Phoenix to hold Extraordinary General Coordinator election

Following a determination that General Coordinator Jason Andersen has gone AWOL (he has not indicated when he is likely to return from his LOA and emails have gone unanswered), Misty Wilson has been appointed as Acting General Coordinator until an extraordinary election can be held.

Nominations will be accepted over the next two weeks until 5 December, with campaigning and voting to follow - the process should be completed by early January.

Details and nominations can be found here.

Misty Wilson becomes Deputy General Coordinator

Jason Andersen has confirmed that Misty Wilson, currently the Contender, will also be his Deputy General Coordinator.

While this may seem strange, he has assured the membership this does not violate the site's legislation.

ksabers named Deputy EVC

In one of the first major governmental changes of the new administrations, Zuzutoo has named ksabers as his Deputy Elections and Voting Coordinator; he is already Sim Development Officer.

As yet, we do not have a Deputy General Coordinator, but one should soon follow.

Election Results 2014

Phoenix has a new General Coordinator after much-delayed elections; Jason Andersen becomes the third head of the club as we approach our 4th anniversary on Saturday. Elections Coordinator Kevin Diamond informed Phoenix of the results on Friday:

For General Coordinator the winner with 33% of the ranked voting is Jason Andersen. Third times the charm. The office of Contender goes to the second place Candidate with 27% of the vote, Misty Wilson.
Technical Coordinator we came out with a straight tie of 50% each... Assuming Jason wishes to keep his title of General Coordinator, that would mean that Euan Reid retains the sole possession of his keys to the Technical Coordinator position.

Quite literally one or two voters could have changed either of these races, so your votes have great value. Thank you to everyone that participated in the election of our governance. Congratulations all!

Jason then withdrew from the TC race, meaning that Euan spends a fourth term as Phoenix's tech head.

Silent Hunter stood down immediately as planned following the elections in which he did not run; Jason has allowed him to retain his posts as Twitter and Blog Admin Officers.

General Coordinator vote begins!

Ballot papers have now been sent out for the General Coordinator elections; please vote!