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+# OpenFeature 2023 Governance Committee election
+
+Please see **[the list of candidates running in the election here](https://github.com/open-feature/community/pull/261/files#diff-aa2a6823369b7c294aa78e2867de50e1707b786d7b208ce5dd2269512765f598)**.
+
+This election should fill seven seats: 
+- four seats from the existing governance committee
+- three seats from new candidates.
+
+Election schedule:
+
+* October 23rd - November 23rd 2023 - period to submit nominations
+* November 24th 2023 - official nominees list published
+* November 25th - 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/open-feature/community/issues/262)
+* Vote between 25 November 2023 00:00 UTC and 17 December 2023 23:59 UTC via the [voting link](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/OpenFeature2023)
+
+# Vacancies
+This election should fill seven seats:
+- fours seats from the existing governance committee
+- three seats from new candidates
+To encourage diversity there will be a maximum of one-third representation on the Governance Committee from any one company at any time. 
+If the outcomes of an election result in greater than 1/3 representation (or maximum of two, whichever is greater), the lowest vote getters from any particular company will be removed until representation on the committee is equal or less than one-third.
+
+
+# Voting process
+
+Anyone can track the 2023 election process via [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/open-feature/community/issues/262).
+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.
+
+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 email address.
+The disadvantage of Helios is that it does not support ranked voting.
+
+# 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/open-feature/community/issues/262) a Pull Request adding said candidate to the [candidates-2023.md](https://github.com/open-feature/community/Elections/2023/Candidates) file in the OpenFeature community repository.
+
+The template in that file includes the following columns:
+
+* 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 OpenFeature 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/OpenFeature2023) using their GitHub account.
+Voting will be approval voting, where each voter may select up to seven candidates, **four** from the current Governance Committee and three from the new nominees.
+The seven candidates (four from current GC and three from new nominees) with the most votes win the election.
+The winners should be from different organizations(at most 1/3 from the same organization), therefore only the 2 highest ranked nominees from each organization will be elected. 
+If the outcomes of an election result in greater than 1/3 representation (or maximum of two, whichever is greater), the lowest vote getters from any particular company will be removed until representation on the committee is equal or less than one-third.
+
+If there is a draw between 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 the 17th December 2023 23:59 UTC. Nominees will be stack ranked.
+If a nominee becomes ineligible, 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.