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+linktitle: Governance Committee election
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+# Keptn 2023 Governance Committee election
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+Please see **[the list of candidates running in the election here](../governance-committee-candidates/)**.
+
+This election should fill three seats.
+
+Election schedule:
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+* October 15th - November 15th 2023 - period to submit nominations
+* November 16th 2023 - official nominees list published
+* November 17th - December 17th 2023 - voting period
+* Decmber 18th 2023 - results announced
+
+We highly encourage participation in this election cycle to ensure that the community is well-represented by the Governance Committee.
+
+# TL;DR
+
+* If you've been nominated or are willing to nominate yourself: express your interest in [this issue](https://github.com/keptn/community/issues/312)
+* Vote between 17 November 2023 00:00 UTC and 17 December 2023 23:59 UTC via the [voting link](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/Keptn-2023)
+* Stay a Keptn and keep contributing to the project!
+
+# Vacancies
+Three people from three different organizations must be elected in this election, the term is also part of the voting (one or two years).
+
+
+# Voting process
+
+Anyone can track the 2023 election process via [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/keptn/community/issues/312). We will ensure that all documents and assets related to the 2023 election process are public.
+
+For the 2023 elections, [Helios Voting](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/) was chosen as it's a hosted solution with cryptographic guarantees that no GC members can meddle with the results.
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+Helios voting also allows us to add GitHub handles to the list of voters in addition to email addresses. We need this, as we count contributions based on GitHub contributions and do not always have the contributor's actual email address. The disadvantage of Helios is that it does not support ranked voting
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+# Nominations
+
+Anybody is eligible to run for the Governance Committee. During the "call for nomination" period, people can be nominated or nominate themselves by expressing their interest in [this issue](https://github.com/keptn/community/issues/312) a Pull Request adding said candidate to the [governance-committee-candidates.md](https://github.com/keptn/community/elections/2023/governance-committee-candidates) file in the Keptn community repository. The template in that file includes the following columns:
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+* Full name
+* GitHub alias
+* Company affiliation (if applicable)
+* Short bio or reasoning to join the Governance Committee (no more than a short paragraph)
+* _Optional_: photo/picture of a nominee
+
+The Pull Request will not be merged until the candidate has confirmed their desire to be nominated (if not self-nominating) and ratified via PR comments.
+
+# Voter Eligibility
+
+All members of the Keptn Organization (Members, Approvers, Maintainers) will automatically be eligible to vote.
+
+# Vote
+
+Everyone with voting rights may log into [Helios Voting](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/Keptn-2023) using their GitHub account. Voting will be approval voting, where each voter may select up to three candidates. The three candidates with the most votes win the election. The three winners must be from different organizations, therefore only the highest ranked nominee from each organization will be elected. Nevertheless, it is possible to vote three nominees from the same organization.
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+If there is a draw between the third and the lower ranked candidates, there will be a runoff election between the tied candidates. The runoff election will be held within 48 hours of the original election. The runoff election will be a simple majority vote, and the candidate with the most votes will be elected.
+
+Per Helios, voting is entirely private: nobody will know any individual's vote.
+
+# Results
+
+Voting will close on 17th December 2023 at 23:59 UTC. Nominees will be stack ranked. If a nominee becomes ineligible (for instance, if more than three topmost nominees work for the same company), the election committee will skip those nominees and pick the nominee with the next-highest score. The exact scores for each candidate will be public.