[NCUC-DISCUSS] ELECTION RESULTS

[Dan Krimm]

I presume this is meant to read more like "to prevent more than one
CANDIDATE PER category being ticked"?

Dan



At 2:05 PM +0100 12/16/14, William Drake wrote:
>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 â?ì Europe
>>>>> 3:189 votes   [] Stefania Milan
>>>>> 4: 26 votes    [] Abstain
>>>>>
>>>>> Executive Committee â?ì Africa
>>>>> 5:107 votes   [] Grace Githaiga
>>>>> 6: 41 votes    [] Hago Dafalla
>>>>> 7: 32 votes    [] Lorin Ekpe
>>>>> 8: 39 votes    [] Abstain
>>>>>
>>>>> Executive Committee â?ì Asia and the Pacific
>>>>> 9: 34 votes    [] Imran Ahmed Shah
>>>>> 10: 82 votes   [] Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang, å1Ž4  éí»)
>>>>> 11: 75 votes   [] Walid Al-Saqaf
>>>>> 12: 34 votes   [] Abstain
>>>>>
>>>>> Executive Committee â?ì North America
>>>>> 13:180 votes   [] Roy Balleste
>>>>> 14: 38 votes    [] Abstain
>>>>>
>>>>> Executive Committee â?ì 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 â?úofficialâ?ù.
>>>>>
>>>>> So,
>>>>>
>>>>> a.  Many thanks to all those who voted. Even when thereâ?ôs 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 baseâ?î 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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