Re: [council] NC teleconference announcement, September 15th 1999

[Javier <javier@aui.es>]

Nigel,

I see several problems with your proposal:

1) It does not assure regional diversity.
2) It is unheard of in any type of election and extremelly confusing that 
the names of nominators be placed in a ballot.
3) I believe that the vote should be public.
4) Preferential voting does not have any meaning, except in case of a tie. 
I am not against it, it may make the tie-break procedure easier. In case of 
a tie, a candidate with higher added preference (we can give 3 points to 
the first, 2 points to second and 1 point to the third) would win. It would 
require a write-in ballot, instead of a ballot in which you just write 
crosses in front of names.

Your motion to delay should be voted before my motion. Your proposal should 
be voted after mine, as it has come later in time.

Javier

At 14:32 14/09/99 +0100, Nigel Roberts wrote:
>Since Dennis's group hasn't been given the time to come up with
>proposals, I propose the following:
>
>--------------------
>Resolved that:
>
>1. discussion of Javier's proposal be deferred in order that
>a report may be produced within 7 days highlighting /all/ proposals
>for the election, and to include the contents of the expert advice which
>has already been sought.
>
>2. following Amadeu's comments, an election commission be immediately
>set
>up to oversee the conduct of the election, and that the Names Council
>determine its membership.
>
>-------------------
>If this fails, I will propose the following plan to be subsititued
>for Javier's motion.
>
>
>Resolved that:
>
>1.Any person nominated by a member of the GA and supported by at least
>nine other members of the DNSO before October 8th, 1999 will be
>considered as candidate for ICANN Board membership by the DNSO.
>
>The names of the ten nominators should appear on the ballot paper next
>to
>the candidate's name.
>
>
>2.A public comment e-mail address will be opened immediatly.
>
>All nominations a support for nominations should be sent to this
>address. Constituencies of teh DNSO may formally support the candidature
>of one or more persons.
>
>The names of any constituencies supporting a candidate should appear
>on the ballot paper next to the candidates names.
>
>A public call for nominations in the GA list and other ICANN lists will
>be done as soon as the list is set up.
>
>
>4.The election will take place by secret ballot between october 8th and
>october 15th, 1999.
>
>Each member of the Names Council will cast votes by preferential voting.
>(i.e. by ordering candidates in order of preference: (1..2..3 etc)
>
>Votes are to be sent to an email address operated by an independent
>scrutineer
>to be chosen by the Names Council.
>
>Votes will be published on the Names Council list bearing an identifying
>number
>only so that that while the person casting the vote may not be
>identifiable, he or she can verify that his or her vote was correctly
>recorded.
>
>5. The count will be conducted by an independent third pary using a
>recognised method of counting preferential voting elections.
>
>6 After the closing of the voting period, the independent Retuning
>Officer will send to the Names Council an ordered list of the Candidates
>ranked
>according to the support they receive.
>
>7.  That the Names Council select from this ordered list the names of
>three people taking principally into account the support they received
>in the
>ballot, and additionally the requirements of the ICANN By-Laws for the
>time being in force and the need for diversity of representation.
>
>8. That a resolution proposing these three people as the ICANN Board
>Members for the DNSO be put to the Names Council. If this resolution
>passes and that those in favour comprise more that half of the Names
>Council for the time being, those three person be delclared duly
>elected.
>
>9.In case the nomination process does not yield three valid candidates,
>thr Names Council shall co-opt one or more persons who have indicated
>their
>willingness to serve as ICANN Board Member to fill any vacancy(-ies)
>caused
>by the lack of valid candidates.
>
>10.The Names Council will send to the ICANN Board names of its elected
>representatives as soon as their names are known, either one at a time
>or together.