RE: [ga] Proposed rule for registering to vote in the GA (fwd)

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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Kudos to Harald for helping develop and implement a fair set of rules for civil
discourse, and for a safe and open method of establishing a voting role for the
GA.  

However, I have little hope of the GA ever being taken seriously after seeing
how dismissive the Names Council is of their working groups, and using the fact
that the groups were full of those who are not represented in any of their
narrow and exclusive "constituencies" as a justification for ignoring their
report.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:35:45 +0200
> From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] Proposed rule for registering to vote in the GA
> 
> 
> The following rules are suggested for the initial GA voting roll:
> 
> - The DNSO General Assembly is composed of those persons who want to be
>    members of that assembly.
>    At present, this includes "ex-officio" the subscribers to the GA-lists,
>    the participants to the DNSO Constituencies and the participants to the
>    Working Groups.
> 
> - A Member has the right to vote in a GA vote.
> 
> - All members who wish to vote in a GA vote must register with the
>    GA voting registry.
> 
> - To register, one must send an email to the Keeper of the
>    Voting Registry (a secretariat function) asking to become a member,
>    and giving:
>    - Name
>    - Country of residence
>    - Optionally, company affiliation and/or city of residence
>    - Optionally, constituency memberships (if relevant)
>    - Email to be used for balloting
>    All the information except the email will be made public.
>    A template is given below; USE THIS.
> 
> - The Keeper of the Registry keeps an updated Web page listing all
>    the Members listed in the voting registry.
> 
> - A Member can be removed from the voting registry by:
>    - A request from the Member to be removed
>    - A procedure for dealing with fraudulent registrations
>      (see below).
> 
> - A registered Member has the duty to receive GA vote ballots, and to keep
> his
>    registration info updated.
> 
> The following template is sent to the address ga-voting to apply for
> membership:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> To: ga-voting@dnso.org
> 
> Name              : <your name here, as you wish it to be written>
> Country           :
> City (OPTIONAL)   :
> Company (OPTIONAL):
> Constituency (OPT):
> Email (NOT PUBLIC):
> 
> I wish to be registered in the voting registry of the DNSO GA.
> I agree that my name and country of residence, and city, company and
> constituency info, if I supplied it, can be made public.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The procedure for dealing with fraudulent registrations is very similar to
> that for multiple registrations on the GA discussion list:
> 
> - Any GA member who thinks that a registration in the public list is
>    fraudulent can complain to the GA List Monitor.
> - The Keeper of the Voting Registry can forward suspicious-looking
>    requests for registration to the GA List Monitor.
> - The GA List Monitor can investigate the matter further, and if he
>    determines that the same person is attempting to register more than
>    once, the extra registration can be removed from the list.
> 
> The decisions of the GA List Monitor can be appealed to the GA Chair.
> 
> NOTES:
> 1) Once the membership function is established, these rules should be
>     confirmed, amended or replaced by a vote.
> 2) Once the membership function is established, the office of list monitor
>     should be elected by the membership; it should also be more than one
>     person, IMHO. The text above on this subject is intended as the interim
>     measure.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
> 
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