Re: [ga] Election: Letter to the GA Chair, please endorse/sign!

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

I endorse this letter.

Jon


Jonathan Weinberg
Professor of Law, Wayne State University
co-chair, WG-C
weinberg@msen.com

At 08:18 PM 12/13/2001 +0100, Alexander Svensson wrote:

>[I ask other GA members to endorse this appeal to the Chair
>by co-signing this message.]
>
>============================================================
>
>Dear GA Chair,
>
>the NC Transfer Task Force, from which you have resigned,
>will start their work with a conference call next week.
>
>During the nomination phase of the election, the GA expected
>to send one representative. Three candidates have come forward
>to become this (single) representative. Now, there is the
>possibility that two or three representatives (one voting,
>one or two non-voting) can be sent. The election cannot be
>changed midway without distorting the GA voters' choice:
>It would lead to an automatic election of candidates.
>The GA voters should therefore have the right to choose
>whether to send any of the candidates to the Task Force.
>
>Since elections during the upcoming holidays would be
>very inconvenient and the Task Force work is about to begin,
>we ask you to quickly start elections for a GA representative
>on the Task Force, following the approach suggested by
>Jonathan Weinberg
>(http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/msg03615.html):
>
>   On the ballot, allow GA members to vote YES/NO on each of the
>   three candidates.  The rule would be that the candidate with the
>   most YES votes is the representative, and the next highest
>   vote-getter is the observer, except that a candidate will not be
>   deemed elected to *any* position unless he receives YES votes
>   on more than half the ballots submitted.  That gives the GA
>   the option to elect two people if it chooses, but it also gives a
>   majority of the GA the ability to say that it doesn't want
>   particular people representing it on the TF (as either
>   "representative" or "observer").
>
>Please make sure that the GA is represented on the Task
>Force, and please act quickly, so that the Secretariat
>can set up the election in time before the holidays!
>
>Regards,
>/// Alexander
>
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