[ga] Another sham election

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

The vote for DNSO/ICANN Board director begins in two days, and no one really 
cares.  Not even the candidates.  None of them have posted to the GA list, 
nor to any other list.  There has been no debate on job performance, no 
debate on the course of ICANN reform, no debate at all.  It's all rather 
pathetic, but totally in keeping with the reality that most of us will never 
be voters in this process -- voting rights have been denied to the membership 
of the DNSO GA and continue to be denied under the terms of the "Reform".  

The architect of the continued denial of our voting rights is Alejandro 
Pisanty who has already been endorsed by members of the BC, the ccTLDs, the 
NCDNHC, the registrars, the GTLDs, and the IPC.  Apparently the only other 
constituency that doesn't feel a need to suck up to the Board and to deny us 
our rights is the ISP constituency.

Never mind the fact that Alejandro has voted against every single DNSO 
recommendation put forth in recent memory, or that he endorses the vile plan 
to totally eliminate representation for the At-large, or that he wants to end 
all consensus-based decision-making in favor of action by Board fiat, or that 
he seeks to achieve an unaccountable Board not even liable to an Independent 
Review Panel -- he will still be elected by a landslide because the Council 
reps place a greater priority on efforts to curry favor than they do in the 
proper exercise of judgment. 

You will hear all the usual platitudes:  he listens, he's been doing a good 
job, we should keep him on while the reform is underway...  the truth is that 
he listens only to what he wants to hear, that he's been doing a horrible job 
(both in terms of his voting record and his reform plan), and the best thing 
that we could do would be to oust him before he makes things far worse.

But that won't happen.  This will be the quickest election in history because 
every constituency wants to score points with Alejandro.  This election is 
not about who is the best person for the job, it's all about 
influence-peddling and being seen in the forefront of the endorsement list.  





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