<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">So another sham of a LACRALO election is endured.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">If you believe in a democratic institution based on rules and constitutional authority, the candidate declared the representative of LACRALO to the ALAC for the period 2015-2017 is as illegitimate as the election process was tainted and fraudulent.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Here's more evidence of incompetence and sloth. Those vote numbers that are reported are plain wrong. Look for this to be blamed on staff.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">One really need not be a genius in discrete mathematics for it to be immediately obvious that with only 14 ALS voting in affirmative for the 'winner', that could NOT amount to 46% of the vote. It is the weighted percentage that counts, not any other fanciful figure pulled from some febrile brain.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">There are 20 countries represented in LACRALO. Each country is CAPPED at 5% of the vote.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">That 5% is deemed the Maximum Percentage.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The 5% of vote is shared equally by the ALS in each country.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The contribution of each voter is then proportional to the number of ALS in each country.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Take the case of Argentina. There are nine (9) accredited ALS. Each ALS can only contribute and vote 0.56% of that Maximum Percentage. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Take the case of Nicaragua. With only one (1) ALS, IEEE Nicaragua exercise the maximum 5% on its own for Nicaragua. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">LACRALO has forty-seven (47) ALS. Only 30 ALS participated in the sham of an election; BigPulse records 14 votes for Arcos, 8 votes for Rojas and 8 abstentions.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">An abstention is counted as a 'no' vote under the rules.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Seventeen (17) ALS were credentialed and did not vote. These could very well be classified 'election not acknowledged for crap'. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">See <a href="https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=5014vdFeWMZF7tDJbzr4zuiD">https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=5014vdFeWMZF7tDJbzr4zuiD</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The real numbers are as follows :</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Did NOT vote - 37.87%</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Arcos - 27.67%</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Abstain/No - 19.04% </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Rojas - 15.42%</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">There's your 100% of the possible vote accounted!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">LACRALO does not have a rule pertaining thresholds for legitimacy or runoffs. But this I know for sure. The 'winner' does not and cannot represent the interests of the Jamaican Internet user at the ALAC. Not on a fraudulent vote.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The spreadsheet will be sent to staff. So that the connection be made to the authoritative precedent, I will also include the spreadsheet used to quantify the votes in 2008 that was originally developed by Nick Ashton-Hart.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">-Carlton Samuels</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> </div><div><div class="gmail_signature">==============================<br>Carlton A Samuels<br>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><i><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i><br>=============================</div></div>
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