This whole thing is past the point of being ridiculous.

So, I'm making an executive decision. If this is the last thing I do as Chair and/or Council, so be it. At least I'll have gone out doing what I think is right.

As Council Chair, I'm declaring Council nominations to be retroactively re-opened until October 28th, and voting will occur for Council from November 2nd through the 8th. As such, we now have three candidates for Council. I encourage others to consider their own nomination for Council as well.

As for a decision on the process going forward with the Board, that's still in debate at the moment internally. I suspect that as we had enough candidates for the Board to hold an election, the Board nomination period will probably not be reopened or extended.

To date no election has been started, probably because of valid confusion around what's going on. I am hopeful that said confusion will be clarified soon. Regardless, when there is movement on this topic I will make that information available here as soon as I possibly can.