On July 2, 2018, voting was opened to elect a community representative in the board of directors of the Drupal association and will run until July 13, 2018. The association has published the profiles of the candidates in the Drupal elections. community of the Drupal Association where you can read the motivations of each one as well as a short video where they express them directly, we have created this guide in Spanish to facilitate voting for the Spanish-speaking community
This year our CEO Jairo Alberto Pinzón has presented his nomination which you can read directly from his candidacy page and which we invite you to consider for your vote.
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Who can vote?
If you have a drupal.org account you can vote on:
- You created your account at least on the date nominations opened (June 1 to June 11, 2018).
- You already have an account and have logged in at least once in the last year.
How is the winning candidate chosen?
The results are calculated using the "Instant Runoff" method, which in Spanish is known as Instant Second Round, this method is used when there are several candidates for a single position. Instead of voting for a single candidate, voters rank the candidates by preference, these preferences will be used later to elect the candidate who exceeds 50% preference, if the votes in the top do not reach that 50%, the lowest preferred from the total of the top are eliminated giving the vote to the next in preference, so when the options are reduced, a candidate with 50% preference can be obtained, for something more illustrated you can see this video (in English)
How do you vote?
1. Log in with your drupal.org account
2. Go to the voting page where the candidates are listed: https://assoc.drupal.org/election-post/19/vote , you will be able to see if you are enabled to vote and also a button on the right that says "vote", click to start your vote.
3. On the page that now appears, arrange the candidates in order of preference using the drag icon to the left of each candidate, each candidate must be moved above the orange band to enter your list of candidates. elected, at least one of the candidates to allow you to vote, keep in mind that the order in which you organize them determines your preference (from top to bottom)
4. Once you have ordered the candidates in the order you prefer, click on the "vote..." button, you may also abstain using the "Abstain" button or click on "Clear form" to reorder again.
5. Now a screen will appear asking you to confirm the candidates you have chosen, your vote has not yet been made, so it is important that you make sure that they are the candidates you want and in the order of preference that you also want, when Once you are ready, click the "Confirm" button.
6. If you see confirmation of your vote, congratulations and thank you! Your vote is very important for the community. The results of the election will be published on July 25th on the association's Blog . Finally, we invite you to encourage other members of the community to participate in this vote by supporting the initiative with which you most identify.
