RE: [ga] Call for focus.....

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

In the interest of getting an interim Chair into place and as this appears to be the best proposal so far, I second this motion.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

|>-----Original Message-----
|>From: owner-ga-full@dnso.org 
|>[mailto:owner-ga-full@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
|>Joop Teernstra
|>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:49 PM
|>To: Greg Burton
|>Cc: ga@dnso.org
|>Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....
|>
|>
|>
|>>
|>>Greg Burton wrote:
|>>
|>>> At 02:53 PM 2/13/01, Joop Teernstra wrote:
|>>> >There is a seconded motion for a proposed nomination 
|>process by Joanna
|>>> >Lane, waiting for consideration by the Chair.
|>>>
|>>> Joop, I can't find that post of Joanna's in the ga list - 
|>she made a motion
|>>> in WG-Review, but I don't recall one being made in the GA. 
|>Different list,
|>>> eh? 
|>
|>You are right. It's my filtering system that put it with the 
|>GA postings. 
|>Anyway, it has merit here and I support it because it has the 
|>advantage of
|>automating the tally for nominations in one go on the web. 
|>It may persuade popular nominees to accept a nomination when 
|>they see the
|>level
|>of support that they have.
|>It makes life easier for our current tired Chair and gives us 
|>the chance to
|>get
|>a new Chair before Melbourne is upon us.
|>
|> With due credit to Joanna I repeat the motion here.  Who 
|>will second it?
|>
|>*******motion
|>In response to the Chair's recommendations, I propose the 
|>following motion:-
|>
|>1. NOMINATION PROCEDURE FOR GA CHAIR
|>
|>The GA should nominate the candidate for GA Chair as soon as possible.
|>
|>RECOMMENDATION: To use the same procedures adopted by WG-Review for
|>election of
|>its Co-Chair as follows. The names of all current GA Members 
|>(approximately
|>271) will be put up in the polling booth for voting by GA 
|>Members. There is no
|>limit to the number of candidates each member may vote for, 
|>but only members
|>who receive 5 or more votes will go through to a second 
|>round. The second
|>round
|>will determine the selection of candidate by the Preferential 
|>Voting System as
|>detailed by David Farrar in the Archive at
|><http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-review/Arc02/msg00725.html>htt
|>p://www.dnso.
|>org/wgroups/wg-review/Arc02/msg00725.html
|>
|>****end of motion
|>
|>To simplify the nomination procedure, the Booth could do this without
|>passwords, but only a rudimentary block against cheating.
|>The password security could then be put in place at the time 
|>of the election.
|>
|>
|>--Joop--
|>Former bootstrap of the CA/idno
|>provider of The Polling Booth 
|>www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/
|>
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