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

Gordon Chillcott gordontc at look.ca
Fri Jul 26 23:13:47 UTC 2013


My personal preference is for Option 2 - Tie-break by NA-Region ALAC
members.

At the same time, I believe that serious consideration needs to be given
to Glenn's concerns about the fact that the duties are not documented.

Gordon Chillcott



On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 22:44 +0000, Thompson, Darlene 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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> From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] on behalf of Evan Leibovitch [evan at telly.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:44 PM
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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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