No Winners as Bitcoin Foundation Election Ends in Runoff
An election to fill two individual member seats at the Bitcoin Foundation has ended without a clear winner, voting results show. The Bitcoin Foundation reports that none of the 13 candidates received at least 50% of the vote from foundation members, a development that will result in another round of voting. Participants in the run-off election will include entrepreneur Olivier Janssens, former foundation global policy counsel Jim Harper, Atlantic Financial's Bruce Fenton and Michael Perklin of the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), each of whom received at least 30% of the vote.....
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The Bitcoin Foundation recently announced to conduct a runoff election for its two individual board seats, as previous ballot failed to designate a clear winner. The results somewhat contradicted with one of the Bitcoin Foundation's bylaws that requires candidates to obtain at least 50% approval in order to qualify for the board seat. As per one list published on the foundation's blog, the top contender - Olivier Janssens - managed to secure around 46.7% approval, followed by Jim Harper, Bruce Fenton and Michael Perkily who ended up securing 41.2%, 30.9%, and 30% approval rate,....
Voting in the ongoing election to fill the Bitcoin Foundation's two vacant Board of Directors seats has officially resumed with the start of a second round of voting featuring the top three remaining candidates. The Bitcoin Foundation launched the second round of voting after the first ended with no candidates reaching the minimum vote threshold necessary for election. The outcome was one of several possible conclusions owing to the wording of the Bitcoin Foundation's by-laws. The runoff round began at 9am EDT on 6th May and will last until 11.59pm EDT on 8th May, according to Brian Goss,....
Starting with 13 Candidates in the first election round, the Bitcoin Foundation has chosen its new Directors after the elections ran to a secondary, runoff round. The Foundation allowed only the top four candidates from the first round into the runoffs, Bruce Fenton, Jim Harper, Michael Perklin, Olivier Janssens. And each candidate still required 50% approval to win a seat. The Bitcoin Foundation runoff elections have finished. Jim Harper and Olivier Janssens have won the two seats; the final tally was. Jim Harper 264 (60)%. Bruce Fenton 218 (50)%. Michael Perklin 229 (52)%. Olivier....
Olivier Janssens and Jim Harper eventually ended up as the winners of the recently-held Bitcoin Foundation election after procuring 277 and 264 votes, respectively. Their nearest rival Michael Perklin managed to bag only 229 out of the total 440 casted votes. The election, that was held in order to democratically elect the two new board members for the Bitcoin Foundation, facedcriticism for being poorly managed. The foundation was accused by its lifetime and annual members of parachuting to a new, untested on-blockchain voting platform that eventually turned out to be highly lapsed. This....
Kelly Loeffler has lost the Georgia runoff election to Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock. Senator Kelly Loeffler, formerly the CEO of Bitcoin (BTC) futures exchange Bakkt, will not be returning to Washington, at least not as a legislator. According to AP News on Jan. 6, Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock has won one of the tightly contested runoff elections in the Southern state of Georgia. The runoff elections have been closely watched in the United States, as they will determine which party controls a majority in the Senate, which will set the timbre for President-elect Biden's....