Re: [council] Nomination / Voting procedures - DNSO ICANNBoard member

[Nigel Roberts <nigel@nic.gg>]

Well, since Dennis has a task force set up to examine this, I would
suggest
input is sent to that task force and that a report is done, circulated
14 days in advance of the LA meeting and a decision taken on its
contents.

But while we are on the subject, the ICANN bylaws require the following:

1.	3 candidates to be elected
2.	the electorate is the members of the Names Counci
3       each successful candidate have 
        "over 50% of the affirmative votes of the NC members".


I personally also favour something like Javier's plan.

There are well researched voting systems around the world which fulfil
the
all the above criteria, i.e.  whereby each successful candidate has
"over 50%
of affirmative votes" (direct quote from ICANN bylaws) and
preferential voting, as Javier is suggesting in his email.

Now I would suggest that, to avoid any criticism that we are again
doing the work of properly appointed sub-groups, I might 
suggest that if you agree (or disagree) with  Javier's points you send
your input direct to Dennis as the co-ordinator of the Board Elections
task force (which I also volunteered to be a member of).



Nigel

Javier wrote:
> 
> >
> >The next question is who can vote, and how many votes can they have - ie:
> >FICPI is only one member out of 12 in the IPC, but FICPI has over 4,500
> >individual members. Similarly, if all the individual members of the other
> >IPC organizations are taken into account, then there are well over 40,000
> >members in the IPC.  Maybe, we can have a system of voting by constituency,
> >whereby each constituency has 1 vote (i.e. 1 vote  which it could cast for
> >each of the 3 candidates that it supports).  In one model that the IPC
> >used, there were a number of points allocated to the three votes to
> >determine the order of preference (1st place - 5 points;  2nd place - 3
> >points;  3rd place - 1 point).
> 
> We could simplify this to having each member of the NC vote for 3
> candidates. Candidates with the largest amount of votes win, except if
> there is somebody from their region that has more votes.
> 
> Each constituency would decide if it is up to their representatives to vote
> or if they want to mandate a given vote. (whatever each constituency
> decides is not part of the voting procedure).