[NCUC-DISCUSS] ELECTION RESULTS

[William Drake]

Hi

Thanks Dan.  It’s ICANN’s software and one imagines it’s not the first time this has happened with the various elections they administer, but I can pass along the suggestions. 

Bill

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Dan Krimm <dan at musicunbound.com> wrote:
> 
> Given that the intent is for members to vote for one candidate in each
> region, it seems that the voting technology ought to constrain that
> action?
> 
> In HTML, one would use radio buttons rather than check-boxes, for example.
> 
> For the future, could the voting system be updated to do this?  If not (or
> in cases using email), instructions should be clear what will happen if
> multiple votes are cast: the ballot for that region will not be counted.
> 
> In this case as you note it made no difference, but in the future it could
> and then we would have a dispute to resolve.
> 
> Seems to me we ought to try to preempt such a problem if we can.
> 
> Dan
> 
> PS: Congratulations to all the candidates, especially the winners.  As
> usual we had an excellent line-up, ensuring an excellent outcome no matter
> what.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, December 15, 2014 4:08 am, William Drake wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I have just received the results of the election for the 2015 NCUC Exec.
>> Committee, which are as follows:
>> 
>> Chair
>> 1:190 votes   []  William Drake
>> 2: 31 votes    []  Abstain
>> 
>> Executive Committee – Europe
>> 3:189 votes   [] Stefania Milan
>> 4: 26 votes    [] Abstain
>> 
>> Executive Committee – Africa
>> 5:107 votes   [] Grace Githaiga
>> 6: 41 votes    [] Hago Dafalla
>> 7: 32 votes    [] Lorin Ekpe
>> 8: 39 votes    [] Abstain
>> 
>> Executive Committee – Asia and the Pacific
>> 9: 34 votes    [] Imran Ahmed Shah
>> 10: 82 votes   [] Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang, å¼  钻)
>> 11: 75 votes   [] Walid Al-Saqaf
>> 12: 34 votes   [] Abstain
>> 
>> Executive Committee – North America
>> 13:180 votes   [] Roy Balleste
>> 14: 38 votes    [] Abstain
>> 
>> Executive Committee – Latin America
>> 15:179 votes   [] João Carlos R. Caribé
>> 16: 37 votes    [] Abstain
>> 
>> There was a problem with the Africa vote, because some ballots were
>> incorrectly filled in, in that people voted for more than one person. Each
>> of these ballots have the weight of one, so if one were to subtract them
>> from the score, the corrected count would be:
>> 
>> 5:107 votes   [] Grace Githaiga =101 (-6)
>> 6: 41 votes    [] Hago Dafalla =37 (-4)
>> 7: 32 votes    [] Lorin Ekpe  =27 (-5)
>> 
>> This does not in any way affect the outcome of the result, Grace Githaiga
>> still obtains the highest number of votes, for purposes of precision the
>> latter set of numbers are “official”.
>> 
>> So,
>> 
>> a.  Many thanks to all those who voted. Even when there’s no competition
>> for particular slots, it is still very important to have a good turn-out
>> as support for NCUC and its democratic process.
>> 
>> b.  Many thanks to all those who stood for election, your willingness to
>> throw your hats in the ring was really appreciated, and in the competitive
>> cases voters had tough choices to make between excellent candidates.
>> 
>> c.  Many thanks also to those who managed the administration of the
>> election and the data base— especially Tapani, and from the staff Maryam
>> and Glen.
>> 
>> d. Congratulations to Stefania, Grace, Peter, Roy, and João, I look
>> forward to working with you in the coming year.  Maryam is in the process
>> of adding the newbies to the EC mail list.
>> 
>> e. Once we get the new EC in place, our first order of business will be to
>> make a decision on applications for the NCUC travel support program for
>> Singapore (again, applications due Wednesday).
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> ***********************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>  University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
>> william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
>>  www.williamdrake.org
>> ***********************************************
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