Legal Niches

IGDA 2011 Election Results

By james_fudge

The 2011 International Game Developers Association elections are over and the votes are in. This year's votes did not manage to meet a quorum. Under the rules of the group, this gives the IGDA the right to hand pick its board members. The IGDA did say that member participation in this year's election was up 18 percent from 11 percent last year.

From the group's site:

"Since we did not meet quorum, the election was declared void and the Board this morning selected the new board members. As is custom, we decided to select the top five vote getters for the five available seats. Since one of the seats was only for a one year term (vacated by Gordon Bellamy upon taking the Executive Director position), the person with the fifth highest vote count was selected to that seat."

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).