[council] Nominations and Voting Procedure for GNSO Council Chair

[Mawaki Chango]

Hello,


--- "GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG"
<gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org> wrote:

> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org]
> 
> Dear Council Members,
> 
> A. NOMINATIONS
> 
> A formal nomination period, for the election of GNSO Council chair
> for
> the period 3 December 2006 until the end of the ICANN Annual
> General
> Meeting in 2007, is now open for two weeks from Monday 27 November
> to
> Monday 11 December 2006 ending at 11:59 UTC.
> 
> All nominations should be seconded and only GNSO Council members
> are
> eligible to make nominations.
> 
> Please send all nominations and seconds to:
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> 
> Nominations and seconds will be acknowledged and posted to the
> council list.

If we are to send the nominations (and, supposedly, secondments) to
the Secretariat, then it seems to me that we can only have
nominations (and, possibly, concurrent nominations of the same
person) in that initial period, and the secondments only when the
nominations are posted to the council list (when all council members
get to know who has actually been nominated.) 

Unless we are assuming that: 
i) members would talk to each other and agree to one nominating and
the other one seconding the same person (do I want to intrigue with
my colleagues before nominating a deserving candidate?); 
ii) one sends in a blind secondment, pending and at the condition
that the candidate be first nominated by someone else (why would one
want ONLY to second a candidate but not just nominate her?); or 
iii) other farther-fetched mechanism.

Wouldn't it be much simpler and straigthforward to have the
nominations and then the secondments posted directly to the list?
What do you think?

Mawaki


> 
> B. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR THE  VOTING
> 
> The voting period will be open for 14 days, starting midnight UTC
> Tuesday 19 December, and ending midnight, Tuesday 2 January 2007
> UTC.
> 
> C. VOTING PROCEDURE
> 
> The voting will be by electronic ballot and the candidate receiving
> the
> majority of the votes will be elected as the chair.
> 
> There will be a total of 27 votes cast and a majority is 14 or
> more.
> In case of a tie, there will be a second round of voting.
> 
> The rules governing the process are located at
> http://www.gnso.icann.org/council/names-proceduresv7.shtml ,
> Section 13.
> 
> D. GNSO COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE:
> 
> All GNSO Council members are eligible to vote, that is, 3
> representatives from each constituency, Registrars, gTLD
> registries,
> Commercial and Business Users (CBUC), Non Commercial Users (NCUC),
> Intellectual Property (IPC), and Internet Service Providers and
> Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and the 3 Nominating Committee
> appointees. Liaisons from the ALAC and the GAC do not vote.
> 
> E. VOTING
> 
> Voting will take place by secret e-mail ballot.
> 
> 1. Ballots will be sent out individually to each GNSO Council
> members'
> e-mail address.
> 
> 2. Ballots should be filled out and returned to the e-mail address
> stated in the ballot. They should not be copied to any e-mail list.
> 
> 3. At the scheduled time, the Secretariat will announce the results
> of
> the vote by sending a message to the <council at gnso.icann.org>
> mailing
> list. This announcements will include:
> 
> a. The number of votes received by each candidate;
> b. The names of the GNSO Council members from whom ballots were
> received; and
> c. The confidential code number of each ballot and the candidate
> for
> whom it was voted.
> 
> Item 3(c) will allow each GNSO Council member to double-check that
> his
> or her ballot was properly understood, but will not allow others to
> determine how the member voted.
> 
> 4. In exceptional cases where a GNSO Council member has no Internet
> access during the voting period, a voice vote may be registered
> with the
> GNSO Secretariat personally during the voting period, before the
> vote is
> closed.
> 
> F. DISCLOSURE OF THE VOTING
> 
> The Secretariat will announce the outcome of the voting at the
> close of
> the voting period.
> 
> The GNSO Council will confirm the results of the voting at a
> Council
> meeting.
> 
> Thank you
> Kind regards,
> Glen
> 
> -- 
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
> 
> 
> 



 
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