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RE: [council] Convention-Style Voting adapted to the DNSO conditions
No objections here, although I am still trying to digest it. (Thanks
Amadeu for some of your examples).
-----Original Message-----
From: Elisabeth Porteneuve [mailto:Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 3:11 PM
To: council@dnso.org
Subject: [council] Convention-Style Voting adapted to the DNSO
conditions
All,
I tried to put together Andrew proposal with Amadeu input,
I am not sure I took into account Javier's very important
request for feasability, however it takes into account all
NC concerns.
Without major objection from your side during the next 36 hours,
it will be considered adopted and published Sunday morning CET
on the dnso.org website.
Elisabeth
--
Convention-Style Voting adapted to the DNSO conditions.
1. Use of basic rules. The secretariat will keep votes secret
untill the end of election period, and at the end make all
records public.
2. According to the current nominations, it is assumed that
the initial list of nominees will have candidates from all
5 regions.
3. First round via email, to reduce the initial list of nominees
into N1. Each member of the NC cast 3 votes.
4. Second round via email, to reduce the reduced list into the
no more than N2. Each member of the NC cast 2 votes.
5. Third round via email, to reduce the reduced list into the
no more than N3. Each member of the NC cast 1 vote.
6. Subsequent rounds via teleconference plus email, election of 3.
7. In case of a tie the special vote will be held
during the final NC teleconference.
In the worst scenario, step 3(c), the NC will never meet the
GD, and shall probably dissolve.
In the bad scenario, votes equally distributed to different
candidates, N1=18, and then N2 may be set to 10,
and N3 set to 6.
In the expected scenario, N1=10, and then N2 may be set to 7/8,
and N3 to 5/6.
The proposed system require each member of the NC to be available
for vote during all 7 days, Oct 9 to Oct 16.
The first three rounds are asynchronous (you vote when you like,
provided it is within the time window), the last one is synchronous
(during NC telecon on Saturday Oct 16).
Elections will take place during 7 days, starting
Saturday October 9, 18:00 CET, ending Saturday October 16, 18:00 CET.
Unless the worst case happen, step 3(c), the elections will end
on time.
First round via email.
Begins: Saturday October 9, 18:00 CET
Ends: Monday October 11, 18:00 CET
Votes will be sent to an address specially set up by the DNSO
secretariat. The results will be given within two hours after
the close of the first round.
First round, 19 voting NC members, 3 votes each, 57 total.
The initial number of nominees is unknown, but is assumed
to be as high as 20 or more.
Rules applied in the first round:
1. Verification of valid votes.
Each member of the NC shall cast 3 votes, for 3 different
candidates.
2. Verification if somebody get 10 affirmative votes.
If a nominee receives more than 10 affirmative votes from
the NC he is declared elected, and all orger candidates from
his geographic region are eliminated. The first candidate
elected with 10 affirmative votes get the mandate of 3 years,
the second of 2 years, and the third of 1 year.
3. Dropped candidates and GD rule:
a. Candidates with zero, one or two votes are eliminated.
b. The check on the GD (geographic diversity) is done. If
after step (a) there is no GD, i.e. less than 3 regions
represented, all candidates from missing regions who received
2 votes (or 1 vote if none with 2 votes) are added back
to the list of nominees.
c. (worst scenario) If the GD of nominees cannot be
achieved in step (b), the first round is repeted but
no more than 2 times. If no succes achieved, then
the NC shall dissolve.
If necessary, the first round repeted first time will be
Monday Oct 11, 21:00 CET to Wednesday Oct 13, 18:00 CET.
If necessary, the first round repeted second time will be
Wednesday Oct 13, 21:00 CET to Friday Oct 15, 18:00 CET.
In such a situation all subsequent rounds will be delayed.
If the first round votes are equally distributed (each constituency
votes in block for 3 different candidates), we may end with
18 nominees selected, which will be the worst possible. It is
expected we will have much less.
Second round via email.
Begins: Monday October 11, 21:00 CET
Ends: Wednesday October 13, 18:00 CET
Votes will be sent to an address specially set up by the DNSO
secretariat. The results will be given within two hours after
the close of the second round.
Second round, 19 voting NC members, 2 votes each, 38 total.
In the worst scenario the number of nominees is expected to be 10 to 18.
Rules applied in the second round:
1. Verification of valid votes.
Each member of the NC shall cast 2 votes, for 2 different
candidates.
2. Verification if somebody get 10 affirmative votes.
If a nominee receives more than 10 affirmative votes from
the NC he is declared elected, and all orger candidates from
his geographic region are eliminated. The first candidate
elected with 10 affirmative votes get the mandate of 3 years,
the second of 2 years, and the third of 1 year.
3. Dropped candidates and GD rule:
Loop A, repeted without vote until the number of remining
candidates is superior to N2:
a. Candidates with the lowest number of votes are eliminated.
b. The check on the GD (geographic diversity) is done. If
after step (a) there is no GD, i.e. less than 3 regions
represented, all candidates from missing regions who received
the lowest vote are added back to the list of nominees,
and their vote increased by one (this additional points will
not count for the affirmative votes, but only to keep GD).
End of Loop A.
Third round via email.
Begins: Wednesday October 13, 21:00 CET
Ends: Friday, October 15, 18:00 CET
Votes will be sent to an address specially set up by the DNSO
secretariat. The results will be given within two hours after
the close of the second round.
Third round, 19 voting NC members, 1 votes each, 19 total.
In the worst scenario the number of nominees will be no greater than 10.
Rules applied in the third round:
1. Verification of valid votes.
Each member of the NC shall cast 1 vote.
2. Verification if somebody get 10 affirmative votes.
If a nominee receives more than 10 affirmative votes from
the NC he is declared elected, and all orger candidates from
his geographic region are eliminated. The first candidate
elected with 10 affirmative votes get the mandate of 3 years,
the second of 2 years, and the third of 1 year.
3. Dropped candidates and GD rule:
Loop A, repeted without vote until the number of remining
candidates is superior to N3:
a. Candidates with the lowest number of votes are eliminated.
b. The check on the GD (geographic diversity) is done. If
after step (a) there is no GD, i.e. less than 3 regions
represented, all candidates from missing regions who received
the lowest vote are added back to the list of nominees,
and their vote increased by one (this additional points will
not count for the affirmative votes, but only to keep GD).
End of Loop A.
Final rounds via telecon+email.
Begins: Saturday October 16, 15:00 CET
Ends: Saturday, October 16, 18:00 CET
Votes will be sent to an address specially set up by the DNSO
secretariat. The results will be given within minutes.
Final rounds, 19 voting NC members, 1 votes each, 19 total.
Dropped candidates and GD rule:
a. Candidates with the lowest number of votes are eliminated.
b. The check on the GD (geographic diversity) is done. If
after step (a) there is no GD, i.e. less than 3 regions
represented, the round is repeted.
--
|From: "Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com>
|To: <council@dnso.org>
|Cc: "Elisabeth Porteneuve" <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
|Subject: [council] Rules for Convention-Style Voting
|Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:16:28 -0400
|Message-ID: <006d01bf05de$fd69a120$74152581@omnibook>
|
|To the Names Council:
|
|As promised, here is a rough outline of the rules that would govern a
|convention-style voting procedure.
|
|
|I. BASIC RULES
|
| 1. The list of Director nominees is presented to the NC.
| 2. Each NC member votes for one nominee.
| 3. The nominees are ranked by the number of votes received, and
the NC
|is informed of the result.
| 4. The lowest vote-getting nominee is eliminated from the list.
[For
|the first round, all nominees receiving zero votes *and* the lowest
|vote-getting nominee are eliminated from the list.]
| 5. The procedure is repeated with the new (reduced) list.
| 6. A winner is declared when a nominee receives 10 or more of the
NC's
|19 votes.
|
|The first seat to be filled will be the 3-year seat; then the 2-year
seat;
|then the 1-year seat.
|
|In order to reduce the number of rounds of voting, the NC might
eliminate
|the *two* lowest vote-getting nominees after each round (until such
time as
|three nominees remain, at which point the *one* lowest vote-getting
nominee
|is eliminated).
|
|
|II. VARIATIONS BY VOTING MEDIUM
|
|
|BY TELEPHONE
|
|To conduct a convention-style election by phone:
|
| - the secretariat emails a ballot (list of nominees) to the NC
members
|for reference;
| - the secretariat of the NC calls the roll for each round
(rotating the
|list so that NC members are called in a different, random sequence for
each
|round)
| - each NC member states his/her vote when called;
| - the secretariat tallies and announces the results;
| - the secretariat determines and announces which name(s) to
eliminate;
| - the process is repeated until one nominee gets 10 or more votes.
|
|Under this scenario, the NC members will be aware of each others'
votes.
|The call could, but need not, be webcast.
|
|One option would be to conduct the votes for the three Director seats
on
|three different days, to break a single, long teleconference into
smaller
|sessions and to allow the NC members to discuss, reflect and consult
between
|the teleconferences. The teleconferences could be scheduled on three
|consecutive days, or on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday sequence.
|
|
|BY EMAIL
|
|To conduct a convention-style election by email:
|
| - the secretariat emails a ballot to each NC member, along with a
|deadline for the ballot to be received;
| - each NC member emails his/her vote back to the secretariat;
| - the secretariat tallies the votes and prepares a new (reduced)
list
|of nominees;
| - emails the results and the new ballot to the NC, with the
deadline
|for the next ballot to be received.
|
|The disadvantage of this method is that it will be time-consuming and
at
|least some NC members will likely miss the deadline for at least some
rounds
|of voting. At least 24 hours will be required for each round, unless
the NC
|members agree in advance to check their email (for example) every 8
hours
|over the course of a 3-day period.
|
|
|BY TELEPHONE AND EMAIL
|
|To conduct a convention-style election by telephone and email, the NC
uses
|the rules for a telephone election (above), but NC members send their
votes
|to the DNSO secretariat in real time by email. This allows for secret
|voting, but may actually lengthen the teleconference due to (i) the
|unreliability of email transmission, and (ii) the time required for the
|secretariat to read the emails and tally the votes.
|
|
|BY ONLINE VOTING INTERFACE
|
|Don mentioned the possibility of a specially designed online voting
|interface. Perhaps he could post some details.
|
|
|
|[The above is a rough outline. I'll be happy to elaborate or modify
based
|on comments from the NC.]
|
|
|--Andrew