[NA-Discuss] Narrowing Candidate List for special voting

Houle Louis Louis.Houle at isocquebec.org
Sun Mar 2 21:33:12 UTC 2014


Noted,
Thanks Garth

Louis Houle
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Le 2014-03-02 15:03, Garth Bruen a écrit :
> This is the list of nominations and the counts of support
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> Glenn McKnight (3)
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> Louis Houle (2)
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> Avri Doria (3)
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> Darlene Thompson (2)
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> Jean Armour Polly (1)
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> Unless there are more nominations the list of four to be selected from for
> the two (2) alternate board seat voters will be
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> Glenn McKnight
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> Louis Houle
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> Avri Doria
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> Darlene Thompson
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> Thanks, Garth
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> From: Glenn McKnight [mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:47 PM
> To: Garth Bruen
> Cc: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Narrowing Candidate List for special voting
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> Hi
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> I endorse the list proposed by Garth
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> Glenn
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> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, Garth Bruen <gbruen at knujon.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> Sorry to make this more complex, but I have been informed that having all
> ALS reps on an actual ballot is too cumbersome, so we need to narrow the
> ballot through a brief and informal nomination process. So, I would like to
> have nominations of up to four (4) names to go on the ballot for alternate
> board seat voters (this is for the VOTE casters only and not the actual
> board seat). Only names which are SECONDED will go on the ballot. You may
> nominate yourself, but the following people CANNOT be among the nominations:
> Alan Greenberg, Evan Leibovitch, Eduard Diaz, and Garth Bruen - these names
> either already have a vote or are excluded because they are candidates.
>
> My nominations for the two (2) alternate VOTE casters are:
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> Glenn McKnight
> Louis Houle
> Avri Doria
> Darlene Thompson
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> Please second my list or submit your own and do this before midnight UTC
> Sunday so the actual election can begin.
>
> Sorry for all the back and forth on this.
>
> -Garth
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Bruen [mailto:gbruen at knujon.com <javascript:;> ]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:15 AM
> To: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org <javascript:;>
> Subject: On special election for the election of our board seat
>
> Hello NARALO'ers (-ites?),
>
> There was a brief discussion on Monday's call about a pending election. I
> realize the discussion and issue is very confusing so I will hope to sort it
> out here for everyone. IF I HAVE MADE ANY FACTUAL ERRORS IN THE PROCESS
> PLEASE TELL ME.
>
> The ICANN Board of Directors has one seat for an At-Large representative
> ("Seat #15"). The term of our current Board member ends this year. This
> person is voted on by leadership in the At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) and
> the five (5) RALO chairs under rule #27.7.
>
> Current Board is here: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board
>
> ALAC members running for the Board may NOT vote in the election. This means
> a proxy voter must be selected  and affirmed by a vote under rule # 19.10.1.
> The vote is a requirement, but how the alternate voters are selected is not
> defined.
>
> Two of our ALAC members: Alan Greenberg and Evan Leibovitch, are both
> running for seat #15 so we need TWO replacement voters from NARALO.
>
> Since I am the Chair and I am already voting. I cannot have second vote.
>
> These are some of my sugestions for selecting alternative voters:
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> 1. Assign the votes to our two other leadership positions: Louis Houle
> (NOMCOM) and Glenn McKnight (Secretary)
>
> 2. Select two (2) alternate voting candidates though a VOTE from ALL of the
> NARALO ALS operators, excluding the ALAC reps and NARALO Chair - affirm two
> alternates by vote.
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> 3. Select two (2) alternate voting candidates RANDOMLY from ALL of the
> NARALO ALS operators, excluding the ALAC reps and NARALO Chair - affirm two
> alternates by vote.
>
> I will entertain other suggestions.
>
> To be clear, there are several "votes" involved here:
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> A) Potential vote for method of selecting alternative seat #15 voters (vote
> not required, can be done through consensus)
> B) An official vote for two (2) alternate seat #15 voters (ALL ALS
> representatives vote in this process)
> C) A vote for the Board seat #15 representative (Voting by Eduardo Diaz -
> ALAC, Garth Bruen - Chair, Alternate #1, Alternate #2)
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>
> There are many who would prefer that we select a Board representative
> through a vote by ALL ALSes or ALL At-Large particiapants, but that is a
> separate discussion.
>
> Thanks, Garth
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