[governance] Elections for coordinators

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well the time for nominations is long over and we have two nominees for 
> two positions Vittorio and Parminder - info at 
> http://www.igcaucus.org/IGC-candidates-2006.html
> 
> There were a couple of private nominations made, but I checked with each 
> of those nominated privately, and they declined.  If anyone feels they 
> were nominated of self-nominated and I missed it, please let me know 
> immediately.

Since it doesn't seem likely that we increase the pool of candidates by 
stretching the process and wait a bit longer, I am in favor of option 1. 
As recent experience with the voting on the charter shows, it is 
difficult to get people interested enough to vote at all. So, we should 
not make things more complicated than necessary.
jeanette
> 
> We have two options for the election, as I mentioned before.


> 
> 1. (my current inclination)  Hold one vote and the person who gets the 
> most votes wins the two year terms with the other getting the one year 
> term.
> 
> 2. A suggestion was made during the face to face get together during the 
> IGF meeting, that two votes should be held. During the first vote, the 
> person with the most votes gets the two year term.  Under this 
> suggestion nominations for the second slot remain open until after the 
> first vote is completed. At that point the person who got the least 
> votes in the first ballot and anyone yet to be nominated would stand a 
> vote with the person getting the most votes be the coordinator with a 
> one year term.
> 
> If anyone on this list has a preference, please send a message picking 
> an option.  If no one speaks up, I will go with option 1.  On the other 
> hand if people speak up, I will go with whichever option has the largest 
> voice.  I will probably start the vote (or the first vote) by midweek.  
> I will announce which option we are using at that time.
> 
> thanks
> 
> a.
> 
> ps.  Still looking for a volunteer to chair the nomcom to pick the 
> appeals team - for this caucus to work according to the charter, we do 
> need volunteers to take on the tasks.
> 
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