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

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

As I read the rules, they require 60% of the entire council and have a  
required absentee ballot.

Of course the council  can always change the rules.

a.

On 15 Oct 2009, at 15:23, Alan Greenberg wrote:

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> Avri, unless I am reading this incorrectly, you are saying that  
> winning requires a 60% vote, but that if all members are not  
> present, then there must be an absentee vote. If a candidate gets  
> 60% of the entire group by counting just those present, why is there  
> a need to delay accepting that result?
>
> Alan
>
> At 15/10/2009 03:23 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> a.
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