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

RJ Glass jipshida2 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 28 03:20:31 UTC 2013


My opinion,

Vote on the alternatives.

Then revisit the issue to a formal change in the procedures.





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> From: "Thompson, Darlene" <DThompson1 at GOV.NU.CA>
>To: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>; NARALO Discussion List <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org> 
>Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Building consensus on dealing with the election tie
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>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
>CAP Administrator
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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
>To: NARALO Discussion List
>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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