[NA-Discuss] Voting None of the Above Re: …

[Joly MacFie]

Anarchy!

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Eduardo Diaz
<eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>wrote:

> Avri:
>
> I understand what you are saying but what happens if none of the above
> wins? Then what?
>
> -ed
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am really not making myself clear.
> >
> > 1. I appreciate the work others are doing and am glad we have those who
> > are willing to step up.  And they seem like real good folks I can
> support,
> >
> > 2. No, i am not volunteering for a NARALO task at this point, though I do
> > already volunteer for several At-Large tasks and am still learning my way
> > around the At-LArge environment. I think 3 tasks is my limit for now.
> >  Someday I may consider putting myself forward as a volunteer for one of
> > the NARALO leadership tasks, but this is not my time to do so.  Then
> again,
> > as I said in (1), I think we have good volunteers for the leadership
> roles
> > and I feel no need to stand against any of them.
> >
> > 3. Wanting a ballot and wanting 'none of the above ' on the ballot does
> > not mean i want to vote 'none of the above' (see above).  I just think 1
> > person elections are incomplete democracy and are so easy to fix. i.e, by
> > adding 'none of the above' to the ballot.
> >
> > 4. Mostly nobody, or close to nobody, ever votes 'none of the above' and
> > that is really cool.
> >    (from personal experience of having run against 'none of the above' on
> > several occasions,
> >      it is a wonderful relief when the results include few to no such
> > votes.)
> >
> > 5. But if anyone _had_ felt the need to vote 'none of the above', they
> > _could_ have done so.
> >
> > And that is what matters to me.
> > But I don't know if my ALS even agrees with me.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > avri
> >
> >
> > On 18 Jul 2012, at 14:43, John R. Levine wrote:
> >
> > >> So your argument by derision is really rather empty.
> > >>
> > >> I contend that often the reason people don't volunteer is  the
> derision
> > machine that so many encounter when they have an idea that does not meet
> > the approval of the cynical graybeards.
> > >
> > > Actually, I was serious.  But your position that it is very important
> > for other people to do NARALO work, but not important enough for you to
> do
> > any is noted.
> > >
> > > Personally, I'm amazed that anyone is willing to do a job that takes a
> > lot of time, pays nothing, and has little visible effect.  ICANN should
> be
> > more appreciative than they are.
> > >
> > > R's,
> > > John
> > >
> >
> >
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