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

["Antonio Harris" <harris@cabase.org.ar>]

Javier,

Point 5, what happens if two valid candidates have same number of votes ?

Are votes (who voted for whom) made public ?

Tony

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Javier <javier@aui.es>
Para: council@dnso.org <council@dnso.org>
Fecha: Viernes 10 de Septiembre de 1999 12:20
Asunto: Re: [council] Nomination / Voting procedures - DNSO ICANNBoard
member


>
>Maybe I am wrong, but I don't remember creating this task force.
>
>Also, we need to elect our directors before October 15th, which means that
>we have to decide on this issue very quickly.
>
>I propose the following resolution for our next teleconference:
>
>Resolved that:
>
>1) Any person nominated by a member of the DNSO and supported by at least
>nine other members before october 8th, 1999 will be considered as candidate
>for ICANN Board membership by the DNSO.
>
>2) A public comment e-mail address will be opened immediatly. All
>nominations a support for nominations should be sent to this address. No
>other nominations or shows of support will be considered.
>
>3) A wide public call for nominations will be done as soon as the list is
>set up.
>
>4) The election will take place between october 8th and october 15th. Each
>member of the Names Council will cast three votes for three different
>candidates.
>
>5) After the closing of the voting period, the secretariat of the DNSO will
>send to the Names Council a list of the Candidates with the number of votes
>received by each one of them. The following candidates will be recognized
>as DNSO ICANN Board members:
>
>a) The candidate with the largest number of votes (Board Member "A").
>
>b) If there are candidates from regions different from the region of Board
>Member "A", the candidate from another region with the largest number of
>votes will also become a DNSO member of the ICANN Board (Board Member "B").
>If there are no candidates from other regions, the candidates in second and
>third place will become Board Members "B" and "C".
>
>c) If there are candidates from regions different to those of Board Members
>"A" and "B", the candidate with the largest number of votes who is not from
>those regions will be considered Board member "C". If there are no
>candidates from other regions, the candidate with the largest number of
>votes (excluding Board members "A" and "B") will become Board Member "C".
>
>6) Board member "A" will serve for three years. Board member "B" will serve
>for two years and Board "Member "C" will serve for one year.
>
>Javier
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>At 08:07 9/09/99 +0100, Nigel Roberts wrote:
>>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).
>