RE: [ga] Re: A Question for the Candidates

["John Berryhill" <john@johnberryhill.com>]

>
> However, I am much more concerned about governmental elections where the
> stakes frequently are high and people could well be motivated to
> attempt to
> steal the election.  As I mentioned, the Senatorial race in
> Georgia in 2002 [...]

Fortunately in the context of ICANN, we are not talking about races with
stakes that high.

I fully understand the issue with electronic voting machines and US
political elections.  It is utterly off-topic.

However, what we are talking about here is a corporate board election, which
is a tremendously mundane thing done every day -even when, such as the
recent Compaq acquisition vote, there certainly are hotly contested and
close issues.

One member of the ICANN board who wins a close election is not going to end
up in a position to launch nuclear weapons - that person will still just be
one member of a board [1].  So, while the voting system discussion is
fascinating, it has absolutely nothing to do with the worn out argument that
large scale international corporate board elections is either *new* or
*unworkable*.  This canard about a corporate board election is tiresome.

One has to laugh pretty hard about the hoo-ha surrounding the first ICANN
at-large election, and how it was touted as a first-of-its-kind
earth-shattering event of some kind.  Come on, people, this is a corporate
board election.  It is neither difficult nor a big deal.

John

[1] unless Mike Roberts gets onto the board...
http://www.dnso.com/comics/2002/Feb/6/





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