[NCUC-DISCUSS] ELECTION RESULTS

William Drake wjdrake at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 14:05:08 CET 2014 

Hi

I passed this thread on to Glen and she replied that ICANN is definitely looking into tweaking the system so as to prevent more than one category being ticked and she’ll pass this on to their technical support system.

Bill

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 1:13 PM, David Cake <dave at DIFFERENCE.COM.AU> wrote:
> 
> 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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