[CCWG-ACCT] Revised draft - Voting weights in community mechanism

[Julie Hammer]

Hi Jordan and Everyone,

Many thanks for sharing this text on voting weights.  While the SSAC is still considering what form its participation in the Community Mechanism will take, I think your proposal allows for all options and Lyman and I both support this wording.  In particular, we agree with the proposition of equal votes for all current and future SO/ACs.

One other point...Near the end, the document says "[t]hat is, block voting (casting all votes in favour or against the use of a power, even where there are diverse views) is not encouraged." That wording strongly implies that casting all votes in a single block is *discouraged*, even if the views of all parts of an SO or AC happen to be aligned on a particular issue. We don't think that's what you mean, and suggest that the intention might better be expressed by "[t]hat is, where diverse views within an SO or AC exist even after consultation and discussion, that diversity should be 'passed through' in the vote distribution, rather than resolved into a consensus 'block vote' (casting all votes in favour or against the use of a power)."

Cheers,  Julie and Lyman

On 26 Jul 2015, at 3:24 pm, Jordan Carter <jordan at internetnz.net.nz> wrote:

Hi everyone

Here is an update of the previously not-updated text on voting weights. I am sorry that I haven’t got tracked changes to show you - it’s not much changed from what was circulated a few days ago (the redline staff draft that hadn’t actually been finished).

We still need to develop quorum and participation rules - I believe Bernie is working on a paper on this, for discussion next week.

This is on the agenda for WP1 on 27 July.

best
Jordan
<Section 5A2 - Community Mechanism - Voting.docx>
<Section 5A2 - Community Mechanism - Voting.pdf>

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