[ALAC] Voting infrastructure rules
Tijani BEN JEMAA
tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn
Thu Jan 31 09:11:19 UTC 2013
Hi Alan and all,
When a change is suggested, there must be an obvious advantage for the ALAC
or for the At-Large members. Honestly, I dont see such advantage except
that it will make people more influenced. I do prefer that the voters do
their duty of voting as independently as possible.
My address tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org is not working properly any more. Please
use one of the 2 following addresses: tijani.benjemaa at topnet.tn or
tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn
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Tijani BEN JEMAA
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De : alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org
[mailto:alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] De la part de Alan Greenberg
Envoyé : jeudi 31 janvier 2013 05:43
À : ALAC Working List
Objet : [ALAC] Voting infrastructure rules
Currently we have in place a set of rules (approved by the ALAC in
June 2009) on how votes are to be conducted (that is votes that are
not in reference to named individuals).
Those rules are:
1. As the vote is proceeding, we can see how many people have voted.
2. As the vote is proceeding, we can see who has voted.
3. As the vote is proceeding, we can see a tally of how the votes
have been cast.
4. When the vote is ended, we can see how each person has voted.
5. The order of the options should not change as the vote proceeds.
6. Outsiders who cannot vote can look at all of the above interim results.
Rule 4 was there because previously, we had on some occasions used a
BigPulse option to order the options so that the winning one was
first. The rules were debated and approved because at the time, we
seemd to used a semi-random set of voting parameters for each vote.
Based on the last few votes, we seem to be back at the state of
semi-random variations in each vote (the current ALS approval vote
does not allow a voter to see who has already voted, the recent votes
on ALAC statements on Thickwhois and IGO/INGO questions did allow
viewing the list of those who had voted).
Since we are in the process of cleaning up the overall ALAC rules, it
makes sense to revisit this one prior to having staff adjust
procedures to ensure that our rules are being met.
So I ask whether these are the rules we want or if changes need to be made.
I would suggest one change. Since these rules were created to have a
similar effect as a face-to-face vote with all parties and observers
in the same room, I would suggest the replacement of 4 with:
4. As the vote is proceeding, we can see how voted have voted.
This was considered last time, but was not used due to a fear that
seeing how people vote could influence later votes. My thoughts are
that this is exactly what happens in a face-to-face vote and should
not change because we are voting electronically.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this. Specifically:
A) Should we keep the current rules?
B) Should we replace 4. as suggested?
C) Any other changes you believe we should make?
We regularly demand transparency of other parts of ICANN and
particularly the Board. I think that we should use the same standard
for ourselves.
Alan
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