Welcome to the 2023 General Elections
If you are eligible to vote and logged-in to your account, you will see the voting poll below this message. If the checkboxes do not appear and you believe you are eligible to vote please email Prof. H. Alicia Kim. Please see the instructions at the bottom of this page regarding eligibility for members.
INSTRUCTIONS
- 14 candidates have been nominated by current ISSMO members. The candidate list may be found, after log-in, https://www.issmo.net/general-elections-2023
- This election will identify 9 candidates to serve on the ISSMO EC for years 2023-2027. Every ballot must vote for exactly 9 candidates. Attempting to vote for less or more than 9 candidates will return an error message.
- ISSMO values geographic diversity and Members of the Executive Committee must represent a fair geographical distribution, reflecting the membership of the Society. Additional information may be found in the ISSMO Constitution (https://www.issmo.net/about/constitution/).
- The 9 elected candidates will join Prof. Wei Chen (North & South America) and Prof. H. Alicia Kim (North & South America) who will automatically carry-over in the roles of Past President and Past Secretary-General, respectively, on the new EC.
- Voting will close on Wednesday, 7 June, 2023 at 23:59 Cork local time (GMT+1).
- All votes are final.
- Election results identifying the 9 EC members will be announced at the General Assembly (GA) of WCSMO-15 on Thursday, 8 June 2023.
- The registered participants of WCSMO-15 or anyone who attended either WCSMO-13 or WCSMO-14 are eligible. If you believe you are eligible and is unable to access the voting website, please email Prof. H. Alicia Kim
Excerpt from the ISSMO Constitution Regarding the Executive Committee
(https://www.issmo.net/about/constitution/):
The electronic voting is to be closed at mid-night before the ISSMO General Assembly Meeting is being held. Normally nine new EC members are to be elected and thus only those ballots are valid in which exactly nine candidates are voted for.
Members of the Executive Committee must represent a fair geographical distribution, reflecting the membership of the Society. No more than 50% of the Executive Committee may be from any one geographic zone and at least three geographic zones must be represented in this group. If only two zones would be represented on the EC on the basis of the election, then the elected candidate with the least number of votes from those two zones is replaced by the candidate with the highest number of votes from the remaining geographic zone. The new Executive Committee takes over immediately and elects the new office bearers.