# Community Council: Election for the 6th CC member! **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [April 11, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/community-council-election-for-the-6th-cc-member/9698 "2022-04-11T09:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Anynomous](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/anynomous/32/2928_2.png) [@Anynomous](https://forum.grin.mw/u/Anynomous)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/community-council-election-for-the-6th-cc-member/9698/17 "2022-05-01T16:23:37Z")
> [@johndavies24](#): > > This time I follow all the rules and I’m ahead and now the voting period is extended You are so, so likely you would have won this election. It was a mistake on my side to set the deadline only 19 days after my initial post without waiting for candidates to put their candidacy online. Not having a single newsletter with a link to the candidates, well apart from yours since you were responsible enough to directly put your candidacy out 😉, is not really good for an unbiased vote. > [@johndavies24](#): > > the current voting patterns still reveal that I’m a controversial candidate You are indeed ‘a controversial member’. Controversy can however also be good thing, being controversial is often an indication that you are at the front-line of change. Your ideas and opinions are being listened to, no matter any ‘controversy’. This can for example be seen in the large scale buying of miners from the CC fund, which is used for both security and to build an income of Grin for the CC. This was first proposed by you: > [@Grin Fund for Mining Idea](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-fund-for-mining-idea/7978): > > This is not fully thought out so I am just throwing it out there to see what people think of this. Personally, I am happy the funds are kept in BTC, it was clearly a wiser move than converting it all to grin, but some in the community wish the fund was in grin. This made me think, since the fund has just exploded in value, why not build a decentralized mining network that would serve several purposes: Perpetual money printing machine, rather than solely rely on the funds we have and future d… So whether it is from within or outside of the CC, keep voicing your opinion and ideas. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.grin.mw/t/community-council-election-for-the-6th-cc-member/9698)._