[council] Council wide Nominations are closed - Part 2 Each House determines a Candidate

[Gomes, Chuck]

Is there any reason why we couldn't hold a live email election?  I don't know the limitations of the election software.

Chuck 

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> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
> [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Rosette, Kristina
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:25 AM
> To: avri at psg.com; council at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [council] Council wide Nominations are closed - 
> Part 2 Each House determines a Candidate
> 
> 
> To my recollection, none of our previous elections while I 
> have been on Council have been public.  I thought I'd missed 
> the rationale for holding it publicly.  I've gone back and 
> reviewed the messages I could find, but haven't seen one.  I 
> had thought we would be voting privately in the week 
> beforehand with the results announced at the meeting.
> 
> I object to our having to hold the election as a roll call 
> vote.  I believe all Councilors should be permitted to cast 
> votes privately.  Casting open ballots will not be conducive 
> to the improved working relationship that many of us have 
> articulated a desire to develop.  Moreover, given that I have 
> found the environment at ICANN meetings generally (including 
> public Council meetings) to be hostile, I believe casting 
> those votes publicly is more likely than not to exacerbate 
> that problem.
> 
> In sum, I want to vote privately as we've done in the past 
> and have the results announced at the Council meeting.  Doing 
> so has the extra benefit of having a definitive result at the 
> Council meeting (assuming there is a clear winner); no delay 
> from absentee balloting will occur.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org <owner-council at gnso.icann.org>
> To: Council GNSO <council at gnso.icann.org>
> Sent: Thu Oct 15 03:23:01 2009
> Subject: Re: [council] Council wide Nominations are closed - 
> Part 2 Each House determines a Candidate
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to ad a few more details to this part of the process.
> 
> On 15 Oct 2009, at 08:01, Glen de Saint Géry wrote:
> 
> > B. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR THE VOTING
> >
> > For this election, the voting will take place at the public Council 
> > meeting in Seoul on Wednesday, 28 October 2009.
> >
> > Avri Doria, current GNSO Council chair, will serve as 
> non-voting chair 
> > of the bicameral Council meeting on 28 October until such time as a 
> > new chair is elected, at which time the new chair will assume the 
> > chair responsibilities.
> >
> > If an absentee ballot is required to complete the chair's election, 
> > this will be a 24 hour ballot scheduled to end on 29 October. If no 
> > chair has been elected by the end of the Annual meeting on 
> 30 October, 
> > the vice-chairs will assume the chair responsibilities as 
> defined in 
> > the Bylaws and a runoff will be scheduled as determined in 
> the Council 
> > Procedures.
> >
> > The winning candidate needs 60% of the votes of each house.
> >
> > The Council shall inform the Board and the Community 
> appropriately and 
> > post the election results on the GNSO website within 2 
> business days 
> > following the election.
> >
> > In the event that the GNSO Council has not elected a GNSO Council 
> > Chair by the end of the previous Chair's term, the Vice-Chairs will 
> > serve as Interim GNSO Co-Chairs until a successful election can be 
> > held.
> 
> Since this election will be done in the meeting, I am 
> planning to hold it as an open vote via a roll call.  This 
> will be the second major item on the agenda, after a vote on 
> any amendments to the proposed Operating Procedures the new 
> Operating Procedures as possibly amended.
> 
> I am hoping that all of the council members will be available 
> for the vote, either in person or via remote communications, 
> so that the election can be completed on the Wednesday, even 
> if it needs to go to two rounds.  If we do not have everyone 
> available for the call, then we will need to go a 24 hour 
> absentee ballot on each round.  This means that the first 
> round would not end until Thursday morning.  If necessary we 
> could schedule a second round for Thursday, though we would 
> then need to allow for voting at the Thursday meeting, which 
> would be an exception to our normal practice.  In this case a 
> second absentee ballot would end on Friday afternoon.  In any 
> case, the goal is to enable the election of the new chair, if 
> at all possible, by the end of the Seoul meeting.
> 
> As I said, I am hoping we can avoid needing to do an absentee 
> ballot so I hope that any council member who cannot attend 
> the meeting can participate remote in al least the first part 
> of the Wednesday meeting.
> 
> Assuming we have a different candidate from each House, each 
> council member polled would in turn be able to vote for:
> 
> Candidate chosen by Contracted Parties House (CP House or, 
> Candidate chosen by Non Contracted Parties House (NCP House) 
> or, None of the above
> 
> (In the case of a single candidate chosen by both Houses, the 
> vote would resemble the second round procedure below)
> 
> The votes would be tabulated separately according to House, 
> though the roll will be called alphabetically.
> 
> To  succeed a candidate needs 60% or each house.  This means  5 out of
> 7 votes for the CP House and 8 out of 13 votes for the NCP House.
> 
>   - If either the CP House candidate  or NCP House candidate 
> get 60% of each House, he or she will have been elected and 
> will take over as chair of the meeting at that point.
> 
> - If 'None of the above' gets 60% of each house, then the 
> election is halted and rescheduled for a month later.  In 
> this case the two vice- chairs will take over as interim 
> co-chairs at the end of the week.
> 
> - If neither of the candidates (or "none of the above") gets 
> the required 60% of each house, then a second round is called for.
> 
> Assuming every one is present on Wednesday morning, we can 
> hold this second round vote immediately, otherwise we can 
> hold it on Thursday.
> 
> The second roll call vote will be between:
> 
> The candidate who received the greatest combined percentage 
> of the votes when the results of each house is summed to the 
> other (Percentage from CP House + Percentage from NCP House) 
> or, None of the above
> 
> If the candidate receives 60% votes of each House ( out of 7 
> votes for the CP House and 8 out of 13 votes for the NCP 
> House) then that candidate has been elected and will take 
> over as chair of the meeting at that point.
> 
> Otherwise, the election then the election is halted and 
> rescheduled for a month later.  In this case the two 
> vice-chairs will take over as interim co-chairs at the end of 
> the week.
> 
> I believe this process follows from the rules set for the 
> election of chairs in the new bi-cameral council.  I very 
> much look forward to completing a successful election on 
> Wednesday morning.
> 
> Thanks,
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