[NCUC-DISCUSS] ELECTION RESULTS

[David Cake]

There are other online voting systems. I've found OPAVote to be generally excellent (perhaps at least partially due to my Australian preference for a system that supports ranked voting). 

David


On 16 Dec 2014, at 3:44 pm, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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