RE: [ga] Voting rules, take 4

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@netsol.com>]

A few comments:

1. It seems like one week may be a little short for the amount of time to
vote.  If someone is away from email for a week, they miss the vote.  A
couple weeks would seem more reasonable especially in an international
setting.  It doesn't seem necessary to rush this.  Also, two weeks would
allow more time to deal with email glitches that might delay mail delivery.

2. Reasonable advance notice of upcoming votes should be given; a minimum of
two weeks advance notice would probably work.  Advance notice could simply
involve an estimated time when a vote is anticipated because the exact date
when the ballot will be approved may not be known far enough ahead of time.
For example, a notice could say something like this: "A vote regarding GA
opinion regarding Names Council proposal A is anticipated in two to three
weeks from the date of this message."

3. Because the DNSO is supposed to be a consensus-building organization, I
would consider modifying the third rule as follows: "In the case of a choice
between multiple alternatives, the alternative with the most votes over 50%
of those cast wins.  If no choice receives more than 50%, there is no
winner."

4. I think rule 4 should be worded like this: "In the case of selecting N
candidates from a slate of M, with M > N, the N top candidates win."  In
other words, when selecting 4 candidates from a slate of 10, the top 4 win.
An important question to answer in this type of situation is this: "How many
votes does each member get and can they use all their votes for one
candidate?"

Chuck Gomes

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:00 AM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Voting rules, take 4


Based on the discussion earlier, here's what I propose as final text.
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VOTING RULES FOR THE DNSO GA
Version 0.4

These are the rules for voting in the General assembly.

- A vote begins when the Chair approves a ballot.
   The ballot is sent to the registered GA voters by the secretariat.
- The typical amount of time given to reply to a vote is one week.
- In the case of a choice between multiple alternatives, the alternative 
with the most votes wins.
- In the case of selecting N candidates from a slate of M, with N > M, the
N top candidates win.
- A runoff ballot may be held if the number of votes for two alternatives 
is equal, and this affects the result. Only the two alternatives involved 
are inclulded on a runoff ballot.
- In the case where the question is a new rule or rule change for the GA, 
the number of votes in favour of the winning alternative must be at least 
2/3 of cast votes, with a minimum number of cast votes being the lower of 
20% of the registered voters or 100 votes.
-  The voters are those who are registered as voters when a vote is first 
sent out.


The voting roster and a method to register for voting are available in 
http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/rosterindex.html
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The ballot for voting on this rule should read something like:

[] I want the voting rules at <URL> to be approved
[] I do not want the voting rules at <URL> to be approved

2/3 majority required to win, since it's a rule introduction.
Does this seem uncontroversial? If so - let's vote on it!

                  Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no

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