The charter adoption ballot [PLEASE VOTE PLEASE VOTE PLEASE VOTE]

[William Drake]

Hi Jorge

On Aug 15, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:

> Now that I'm back in my office and doing some research on the dates
> from the original messages and your message, I found that it is more
> or less the same time frame when I did some experiments with labels
> and started playing with Google+ and had issues with gmail, on top of
> that, early in August I started doing some email cleanup deleting
> folders and old emails, so there is a high probability that I lost or
> missed an important number of messages during that time frame.
> 
> Now it makes more sense and I'm sorry I missed the check in request to
> contribute another vote for the Charter :-(


Mail problems happen, and it's summer, which we knew would be an issue.  But a pity you're missing the charter vote; hopefully the forthcoming election vote can be different.

Everyone, 

I hope the added caps in the subject line don't offend any sensibilities, but an astonishingly large number of people have not voted yet, including veteran NCUCers, designated organizational representatives, current and former elected Council members, people we've nominated or put onto working groups/review teams/Nomcom,  and on and on…This is really surprising and a serious problem.  As the numbers Avri shared earlier today indicate:

On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Avri Doria wrote:

> At the last check, among those on the active member list who were sent ballots
> 
> 
> -  the reps of 7 large organizations have not yet voted on the charter  - 28 votes
> 
> -  the reps of 10 small organizations have not yet voted on the charter - 20 votes
> 
> -  23 individuals have not yet voted on the charter - 23 votes
> 
> That's 71 missing votes.
> 
> That is 71 votes effectively against the new charter
> 
> That is a 45% vote against the charter.  

So a couple of years of hard work (re)drafting and (re)negotiating with successive boards are in real danger of being wasted, which will be a disaster for noncommercial interest representation in ICANN, commencing quickly.

Instead of doing another round of a few of us having to spend time trying to track members down bilaterally and send reminder pleas, can I suggest an alternative?  Please be proactive.  If you are on the list of Active Members https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Active+Members and you have not received a ballot from tally at icann.org

1.  Dig around in your account, spam filters, trash, wherever 
2.  If you have a ballot, vote today, it takes three seconds
3.  If you are really certain you did not receive the ballot, please inform us here on the list ASAP.  After a few days we can compile the names and ask ICANN staff to resend it to you.  They are swamped too with Dakar planning et al but hopefully they can make that happen.

Time is running out.

Thanks,

Bill

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