Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Coordination

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Election volunteer guidelines
While coordinators have as much right to participate in ordinary voter activity during the election as all other eligible voters (i.e. voting, asking questions, discussing candidates), election volunteers should avoid acting in a way that might cast doubt on their ability to act impartially, or on the perceived neutrality of the coordinators or elections as a whole.

Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission is a three-member panel with a mandate to solve disputes and make decisions on unexpected problems. The Electoral Commission is appointed by the community after input via a request for comment.

Commissioners
 * (1st reserve)
 * (1st reserve)
 * (1st reserve)
 * (1st reserve)

Scrutineers
Scrutineers have technical access to the SecurePoll system allowing them to check the validity of cast ballots, and certify the final results. Scrutineers are drawn from Stewards who do not edit the English Wikipedia as their primary wiki.


 * Scrutineers
 * Superpes15
 * Mykola7
 * Martin Urbanec
 * (vacant) - (1st reserve)


 * Instructions for scrutineers

Coordinators
Coordinators are simply volunteers who help run the day to day operations of the election. Any editor in good standing who wants to help out is welcome to volunteer as a coordinator. Interested persons can add their name below. The commissioners (and reservists) are de facto coordinators and may perform activities as needed.

To do

 * ✅ create general framework pages
 * ✅ conscript the coordinators :D
 * ✅ review prior year feedback pages for any non-rfc changes needed
 * ✅ conduct the 2023 RfC at Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023
 * ✅ Setup framework, launch RfC
 * ✅ Ensure RfC is well advertised
 * ✅ find a closer for the RfC
 * ✅ Close RfC
 * Not needed update ELECCOM RfC if ACERFC introduced any new changes
 * ✅ update Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections/ACERFC decisions to date
 * ✅ conduct the 2023 ELECCOM RfC at Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Electoral Commission
 * ✅ set up framework, launch RfC
 * ✅ - ensure that community consultation phase is running, add advertisements.
 * ✅ close Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Electoral Commission, empaneling the ELECTCOM
 * Not needed modify SecurePoll listGen script to account for RfC changes, namely partial blocks and bot exclusions. (Shouldn't be necessary; I think there have been no changes since last time)
 * ✅ Scrutineer setup
 * ✅ request scrutineer volunteers (Stewards' noticeboard)
 * ✅ Empanel scrutineers
 * ✅ Request local CU for scrutineers
 * ✅ engage WMF for a resource to be assigned
 * ✅ schedule the election time on votewiki with WMF resource
 * ✅ Build lists (may be useful to do this very soon to work out any kinks in the generation process – many fixes were needed last year)
 * ✅ Electoral rolls
 * ✅ Mass message lists
 * ✅ ensure nominations are open and working.
 * ✅ update the candidate guide
 * ✅ set up candidates on SecurePoll (WMF or election admin)
 * ✅ ensure questions period opens.
 * ✅ remove extra election admins
 * ✅ ensure election starts
 * ✅ Collect votes on votewiki
 * ✅ ensure the election is open, has the correct options, and is accepting votes
 * ✅ ensure the election closes
 * ✅ send MMS's /MM
 * ✅ scrutineering processing
 * ✅ publish results
 * ✅ certify results (by scrutineers)
 * ✅ send notifications (candidates, WT:ACN, UT:Jimbo Wales)
 * Cleanup
 * ✅ revoke temporary scrutineer checkuser access
 * review lessons learned, file notes for next election