thank you 
to all 18 19 20 19 candidates who decided to go for it! The nominations are now closed.
Elections timeline
Here is our current timeline for the remaining phases of the election.
- 2025-11-04: Closing of extended deadline for nominations
- 2025-11-05: Voting opens! We’ll publish our ballot of candidates, and send a voting link to all DSF Individual Members via email.
- 2025-11-23 23:59 Anywhere on Earth: Voting closes
- 2025-11-27: Results announced
- 2025-12-11: Last meeting of the 2025 Board; followed by the first meeting of the 2026 Board, where they will vote on the 2026 officer roles (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary).
Voting process
We use RankedVote, with Ranked Choice Voting. From the voters’ perspective, you get a list of candidates in a random order, and then have to move them all in order of preference.
- Here’s a demo of the voting they have set up Family Movie Night. In our case, we will have 3 winners based on our voters’ ranked choices.
- And here’s the illustration of the vote count for the 2024 board elections results for reference.
Up next, once the voting is under way we’ll create another forum thread about that. And if anyone has feedback about the elections – please take a moment to report it here, or on Preparations for 2026 DSF Board elections!