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Voting members of the Senate include all professors and the delegates of the bodies represented in the Extended Executive Board of the University as well as the non-academic members of the Executive Board. In a conventional Senate meeting, only the members of the Senate who are present can place their ballot paper in the ballot box. The same rules apply (§ 85 para. 2 University Statutes) if an election is carried out in writing or online (in case of a virtual meeting). Thus only those people who attend the virtual Senate meeting can take part in the election.
No. Any motion to postpone the Senate meeting will not be dealt with, since it is not within the legal competence of the Senate meeting to postpone the meeting.
The Senate can request that the Board of the University review additional candidates for the position of an academic member of the Executive Board of the University. Suggested candidacies must be submitted in writing ahead of the Senate meeting.
The following options are available in an online election using the TEDME voting tool: Select the box “Abstain” or click on “Other eligible person”. In both cases, no official candidate will receive your vote.
In line with the Academic Senate’s previous practice, no more than three rounds of voting will be held. As in previous Senate meetings, the absolute majority will be used in the first round to determine the outcome. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes in this round, a second round of voting will be held (as per § 77 para. 3 GPR [Political Rights Act of the Canton of Zurich]). The absolute majority also applies to this second round. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of votes in the second round, a third round of voting will be held, in which a relative majority of the votes will determine the outcome.
Multiple rounds of voting can be held through TEDME during the virtual meeting.
As per § 71 lit. e GPR, only decisive votes (“massgebende Stimmen”) are used to determine the outcome of an election. If an election is held in person or in writing, the empty and invalid ballots are eliminated before counting commences. Empty ballots are those where nothing has been written on the official ballot papers. Electronic voting requires no such sorting or counting of ballots. The number of votes is determined automatically and the result is available immediately after votes are cast.
According to § 781 GPR, the absolute majority is determined as follows: The number of decisive votes is divided by twice the number of posts to be filled. The result is then rounded up to the next higher integral number. The relative majority is determined by whoever receives more votes.
Abstentions do not count as decisive votes and are thus not taken into account when determining the outcome of an election.
By voting for an “Other eligible person”, voters can cast a decisive vote for someone who has not been nominated; this vote will count towards the absolute majority. This is a continuation of the practice of previous Senate meetings, where electronic elections were conducted with voting devices. Eligible voters were not able to vote for a specific person then either, but could press a button labeled correspondingly to the term “Other eligible person”.
