[WP1] Fwd: Voting Thresholds

[Jordan Carter]

Lawyers' take on quorum / voting thresholds.
J

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From: Gregory, Holly <holly.gregory at sidley.com>
Date: 29 July 2015 at 03:05
Subject: RE: Voting Thresholds
To: "Gregory, Holly" <holly.gregory at sidley.com>, Jordan Carter <
jordan at internetnz.net.nz>, "Rosemary E. Fei" <rfei at adlercolvin.com>,
ACCT-Staff <acct-staff at icann.org>, León Felipe Sánchez Ambía <
leonfelipe at sanchez.mx>


  Jordan,



I am resending with some minor corrections of a typographical nature for
clarity:



We have considered the approach set forth in your email below and believe
it to be an elegantly simple approach.



The key is that the phrase “*votes that could be cast by participants in
the CMSM at that time*” refers to the number of potential votes ( “votes
outstanding”), which is the sum of the votes available to those SOs and ACs
that have formally opted in to participate.



The  notice provision for opting in and opting out,  and the restriction on
a new participant voting *or having their votes count for purposes of
tallying the total “vote outstanding” with respect to any vote that is
pending when they join*  are necessary limitations in this approach.
(These are the provisions you presented today as we understand them.)



We note that the community powers are important and are not standard issue
– and if those with voting rights don’t  want to participate in a
particular vote, that indicates a lack of interest that shouldn’t be
allowed to make it easier for the passionately involved to prevail.  Your
standard addresses this.



Also, since almost all CMSM votes happen *after* there has been a petition
(exception is director election which is in the hands of individual SOs and
ACS) and votes do not occur at meetings, we see no need for the usual
quorum requirements that specify when a meeting could go forward at which
action could be taken.  Really doesn’t apply here.



Note that I consulted with Rosemary on this.



Holly (and  Rosemary)





*HOLLY* *J.* *GREGORY*
Partner

*Sidley Austin LLP*
+1.212.839.5853
holly.gregory at sidley.com







---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Jordan Carter* <jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
Date: 29 July 2015 at 02:20
Subject: Voting Thresholds
To: "wp1 at icann.org" <wp1 at icann.org>

Hi all



Alan, Bernie and I have been working on the voting thresholds and counting
system. It's an addition to the 5A-2 paper on Community Mechanism - Voting.



We have tried to propose the very simplest model possible, as follows.
Please review this and be ready to discuss on WP1 in ~4.5 hrs or so.



Jordan



*"The CCWG-Accountability proposes that for the purposes of the simplest
possible administration of the voting system that the thresholds expressed
for each community power should be absolute. This means that if a threshold
is 66%, then 66%+ of the votes that could be cast by participants in the
CMSM at that time need to be 'yes' votes for the threshold to be met. No
votes, abstentions or non-participation would all be treated the same way."*



*"An alternative approach that adjusted the thresholds based on the number
of yes/no votes compared with the number of abstentions or non-votes was
considered, but adds significant complexity and so is not the CCWG's
preference at this time."*



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