Election for ICANN Board seat now going on

[Ginger Paque]

Was avoiding another email in your mailboxes... but, in the name of
support and consensus, here you are: +1 for Avri!
Tx. Ginger




On 4/27/2011 7:58 PM, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While it might be nice if we did have elections for the Board where all the members of the constituencies and stakeholders got to vote, at this point it is only the council members in the Non Contracted Parties House who vote.  Though who knows for future elections we could propose it - though it might take a by-laws change.
>>
>> In the CSG, as I understand it, the chairs of the constituencies have directed how their council members must vote.  Of course they have the choice of obeying or not since it is a secret ballot.
>>
>> In the NCSG, the council members are all free to decide for themselves how they will vote.
>>
>> My hope is that they will decide to vote for me.  And maybe the support they see here will help them decide to do so.
>>
>> And of course it truly warms my heart to see your support.  I appreciate it greatly.
> While we can't direct the councillors votes on this matter, I think all our
> councillors are honourable enough to place a very heavy weight on the support
> from the constituency for Avri, which I also echo. Do we have a process by
> which we could confirm majority or even no opposition (we'd be unlikely to
> get a true unanimous positive vote, but no dissenting voices is still a very
> strong result) support for Avri's candidacy amongst the constituency
> membership?
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