The Deputy,

You mentioned "The choice then becomes an election which I am not quite sure how it would be run."

Here is what was proposed:

I (goldhunter) volunteered as the scorekeeper for this election, by keeping the nomination list. Support for the current nomination (Keep Digging) as indicated by posters (such as yourself) will be counted as a YES vote. Please confirm if my assumption is correct.

Important deadlines are

- deadline for nomination Monday 9 July, 4:00pm (Toronto time).

- deadline for vote: Friday 13 July, 12:00 noon (Toronto time).

Please send your nomination and vote directly to my private mail box (either SH or AGO would be fine). If you nominated someone your nomination would be counted as a YES vote for your nominee. For example, Keep Digging has one vote from me due to my nomination. (>>>Keep Digging: I was about to assume that you would cast a YES vote, since you have not declined the nomination. But, just to keep it fair and free of any assumption on my part, can you send me your vote (hopefully it's a YES) to my private mail box, please).

If there is no other nomination by Monday 9 July 2012 then Keep Digging will be declared KSU Representative. Otherwise, we will wait for the outcome of the "election" by 13 July.

I will publish the results (just the number of votes, not names) shortly after. It must be the summer doldrums since the responses have been at a low level, especially on the SH side. I have posted the deadlines for nomination and voting on SH, since about half of the 10+% OS came from that side.

goldhunter