I am considering changing the ballot to include an option that the committee not be formed until the nominations are in place, unless someone convinces me that this is not workable.
I think that's a good idea, it would solve the problem about a late nomination!
Hobby: What if someone is surprised by a nomination, but have already accepted being on the committe?
I think that for an office lasting one year, where some amount of record keeping must be done on the home computer, and the person really does need an eye for detail and timely action, I would not like nominations that were a surprise to the person being nominated.
For one thing, they should have read the Mayor's Handbook (which will be written in the next day or so) and concluded that they don't mind the tedium of doing this during their posting time and can put up with it for a whole year.
I'm sorry, I don't understand that.
Surely, no poster could know whether someone was going to nominate them? I can't see anyone reading the handbook and getting all prepared, when they can't be sure they will be nominated.
The way it's described it sounds as if someone wants to be mayor, and that they prepare, and then find themselves someone to nominate them (because you wouldn't risk leaving it to chance after having prepared, I think). (To me that's a bit fishy, though.)
Or is the idea that anyone who wants to nominate someone should think of that months in advance and ask the person in good time?
Because the way I would have seen myself go about this, would be that at first I'd just wait and see who gets nominated, and if there's a candidate I like, fine - only, if I noticed that I don't like any of the candidates, I'd start thinking about asking someone who I'd think good for the office.
But I guess that's not the idea? (Although, if it's not, what is the nomination period for?)
Edit: I like the new ballot.