[NA-Discuss] Building consensus on dealing with the election tie

[Dharma Dailey]

Have we reached clarity on whether folks feel the job can be shared?  The last message from Glenn, I recall, was along the lines of  "looking into it."  It might be easier on all parties if some of the details were discussed before hand so no one is surprised re: who is doing what.

Dharma 


On Jul 26, 2013, at 6:44 PM, "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1 at GOV.NU.CA> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to encourage all NARALO members to consider the options that Evan has posited below and respond to same.  Without consensus we cannot move forward on this issue.
> 
> Thank you for your time on this!
> 
> D
> 
> Darlene A. Thompson
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> Subject: [NA-Discuss] Building consensus on dealing with the election tie
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to suggest conducting a poll of NARALO members on the best way
> to deal with the tie for Secretariat resulting from the recently-held vote.
> While we need to revise our regulations regarding tie-breaking, we have an
> immediate need to resolve the current situation before the next ICANN
> meeting.
> 
> Based on discussions I have heard to date, there are three paths to
> resolving this that have received some interest:
> 
>   1. Random tie-break
>   The votes for ALSs and unaffiliated members is re-held, and the rules
>   are modified. If another tie results, the tie is broken by a random method,
>   supervised by at least two non-candidate members and/or At-Large staff.
> 
>   2. Tie-break by NA-Region ALAC members
>   The votes for ALSs and unaffiliated members is re-held and he rules are
>   modified. If another tie results, the tie is broken by a consensus achieved
>   in private by the three ALAC members for North America (Alan, Eduardo and
>   myself). Since there are three of us, no deadlock is allowed there
> 
>   3. Shared Secretariat
>   No new election is held, and NARALO declares both Darlene and Glenn as
>   co-Secretariats. While there is no precedent for this in NARALO, there is
>   elsewhere in ICANN At-Large (both co-Chair and co-Secretariats have been
>   done in other regions). The two would alternate travel to ICANN meetings
>   (though both would naturally be at the Summit in London). In the case that
>   any of the North American At-Large leadership cannot attend a meeting
>   (Chair, travel-designated secretariat or ALAC member), the "non-travelling"
>   secretariat member would automatically be designated to take that travel
>   allocation. The rules may still be modified in case of future ties, but
>   such action is not required immediately.
> 
> So I am proposing that, in advance of the next NARALO call, we could do an
> informal poll of members (by Bigpulse or Doodle) to gain a sense of
> preferences between these options that may help guide a regional consensus
> on the August call.
> 
> Is this a workable plan? Are the options above a valid representation of
> the ones discussed? (There are some other tie-break methods I have
> eliminated because of lack of support to date).
> 
> I admit that when I started thinking about the tie I had not given any
> thought to the shared secretariat idea, but it has grown on me since. There
> is a significant amount of work to do, and it would be IMO a shame to force
> an all-or-nothing tiebreak on two people with both popular support and an
> eagerness to do the job.
> 
> - Evan
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