OTW Elections Committee

The Elections Committee is one of the committees involved in the Organization for Transformative Works. The purpose of the committee is to co-ordinate and oversee the Board candidacy and election process in the OTW.
The Elections Committee was established in 2014.September 2014 Newsletter, Volume 84 on Ao3 News. Prior to that, all Elections were overseen by an Elections Workgroup, coordinated by an Elections Officer who was a serving member of the OTW Board of Directors.Elections Officer Neutrality, 2012-09-12 From the About section, on the Elections website:
==History of OTW Board Elections==
* 2010 OTW Board Election is notable as the first contested election in OTW history, and the election which established the precedent for appointment of candidates in the event of Board appointments immediately following an election. The 2010 and 2011 OTW Board Elections were overseen by an Election Workgroup. See Spotlight on Board: Ira Gladkova on Elections, a detailed report on the 2011 election written by the Elections Officer that year, which highlights technical and organizational problems in the process.
* 2011 OTW Board Election
* 2015 OTW Board Election is notable as the first contested election overseen by the newly formed Elections Committee.
* 2016 OTW Board Election
* 2017 OTW Board Election
* 2018 OTW Board Election
* 2019 OTW Board Election
* 2020 OTW Board Election
* 2021 OTW Board Election
* 2022 OTW Board Election
* 2023 OTW Board Election is notable as the first uncontested election since 2014. 
* 2024 OTW Board Election
===Role in the 2015 Board Election===
The OTW 2015 Board Election was notable as the first contested Board election since 2011. The Elections Committee co-ordinated the candidacy and elections process as normal, and on November 10 2015 announced the 2015 Elections Results.
In an open Board meeting following the 2015 election, the incumbent Board of Directors appointed Andrea Horbinski, who had been an unsuccessful candidate in the election, to an open Board seat which had not been put up for election. 
In response to this, the Elections Committee published a post entitled Board Appointment of Last Place Candidate to Empty Board Seat. In it, they made the decision to reveal the order in which the six candidates for the 2015 election had ranked, in order of number of votes received, in order to show that Andrea Horbinski had in fact received the lowest number of votes, yet was now being appointed unopposed to an open Board seat.
The Elections Committee wrote in the post that:
They later edited the post to assure OTW members that the candidate ranking had only been revealed due to the exceptional circumstances, and that the Elections Committee did not intend to make revealing the order of candidate ranking in elections a regular practice.
The move was widely applauded by the Organization for Transformative Works volunteers and membership as a necessary act to promote transparency and to draw attention to the dubious practices being carried out by the incumbent Board. One commenter on the 'Appointment of Last Place Candidate...' post wrote that,
Another commenter wrote:
For more details about the events of the 2015 Board Election, see OTW 2015 Board Election.
== History of Chairs ==
* 2014 (September–December): Eylul Dogruel & briar_pipe
* 2015: briar_pipe
* 2016 (January–September): briar_pipe & Mahewa
* 2016 (October) – 2017 (June): briar_pipe, Mahewa & Araise Solace
* 2017 (July–October): Mahewa & Araise Solace
* 2017 (November) – 2018 (April): Araise Solace
* 2018 (May) – 2020 (February): briar_pipe & Jenny McDevitt
* 2020 (March) – 2021 (August): briar_pipe, Jenny McDevitt, Marion McGowan & Emma Lloyd
* 2021 (September) – 2023 (June): briar_pipe, Jenny McDevitt, Marion McGowan, Emma Lloyd & disjointed
* 2023 (July) - present: Jenny McDevitt, Marion McGowan, Emma Lloyd & disjointed
==Links==
* Elections tag
* Elections Website
== Notes & References ==
===Notes===
===References===
 Elections Committee