[governance] Results from the charter ballot

Tue Oct 3 12:11:37 EDT 2006

Hi,

I have now closed the ballot and am tentatively announcing the  
results.  The reason it is tentative is that I want to give people on  
this list who may have voted but who don't feel their vote was  
accounted for a chance to raise a protest.  In this email I will:

a. list the results.
b. list the names of those who account for the quorum
c. list some of the problems that were with the software that cause a  
discrepancy between the sum of votes reflected in (a) and the quorum  
list in (b).
d. list of next steps.

a.  Quorum for the vote was met with 62 votes

     - The charter was accepted with a vote of
         56 votes for
          3 votes against

     - Voting style was determined as being open with the opportunity  
for
       the coordinators to close a vote, subject to appeal
         19 for Secret ballots
         30 for Open ballots

     - regarding the method of selecting the Appeals Team
         35 in favor of using a Nomcom
          9 in favor of voting

     - regarding the method of selecting nominees to other bodies
         34 in favor of using a nomcom
         10 in favor of voting

Note: results can be verified by sending
eVote stats
to the appropriate list (same subject as was used to vote)

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b.  the Quorum was made up of the following people:

Those for whom a vote is recorded

A Michael Froomkin
Adam Peake
Anita Gurumurthy
Annette Muehlberg
Anriette Esterhuysen,
avri doria
Bertrand de La Chapelle
Brenden Kuerbis
Carlos Alfonso
Chung Eung Hwi
Danny Butt
Dave Kissoondoyal
David Allen
David Goldstein
Derrick L Cogburn
Garth Graham
German Valdez
Giacomo Mazzone
Gurumurthy K
Ian Peter
Izumi Aizu
Jacqueline Morris
Jeanette Hofmann
Jeremy Shtern
John Mathiason
Joseph SARR
Karen Banks
Ken Lohento
Louis Pouzin
Maja Andjelkovic
Mawaki Chango
Max Senges
McTim
Meryem Marzouki
Milton Mueller
Mridula Swamy
Nnenna Nwakanma
Norbert Bollow
Norbert Klein
Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
Parminder Jeet Singh
Patrick Vande Walle
Piyoo Kochar
Qusai Al-Shatti
Rainer Kuhlen
Ralf Bendrath
Renate Bloem
Robert Guerra
Shoba Viswanathan
Siavash Shahshah
Susan Crawford
Sylvia Caras
Tapani Tarvainen
Valeria Betancourt
William J Drake
Willie Currie
Vittorio Bertola
Vivek Vaidyanathan

Those for whom a vote is not recorded.

Bret Fausett
Hans Klein
Michael Gurstein
Sudhir Krishnaswamy

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c. Discrepancy.

The four whose participation is recorded in the quorum but not the  
results are for the following set of reasons.

i. 2 votes were not sent successfully to eVote because of excess  
characters in the message
   (i.e. not plain text)

ii. 1 vote was sent to the wrong list.

iii. 1 vote was dropped through some still undiagnosed combination of  
operator error (i.e. me) and a software fault.

I have not listed them in the result tallies, even though for 3 out  
of the 4 cases their vote was inadvertently made public due to the  
error/list the vote was sent on, because it cannot be verified using  
the voting tool.

This bothers me, because I do not feel good about ignoring someone's  
vote in any case.  If the votes would materially have changed the  
results then I would appeal to this group (not having an appeals team  
yet) for an acceptable solution.  Since they would not change the  
results, I am suggesting that they be included in the quorum and  
hence list of people voting, but not be included in the results.

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d. next steps

1. anyone who believes they are misrepresented as having voted when  
they didn't should let me know.

2. anyone who believes they did vote but are not listed as having  
voted should let me know.  If possible please forward me the receipt  
you were sent when you voted.

3. anyone who objects to the results or to the way i am handling them  
should discuss this on the list.

4. i will meantime edit the proposed charter to remove the choice-not- 
taken regarding voting styles and methods for selecting the appeals  
team and to fix a few a few spelling/grammatical errors that were  
pointed out to me during the vote.

5. by Friday, i will publish the edited version of the charter which  
i believe constitutes the agreed upon text.  I will also specifically  
list any changes i made in spelling/grammar.  if anyone believes that  
these change the meaning in _any_ way, i will revert to the language  
of the proposed text wether it is grammatically correct or not.

6. At that point, barring any obvious consensus against doing so, the  
charter will be  the charter of the IGC.  At that point I will  
propose specifics for electing the proper coordinators and for  
setting up the nomcom to select the appeals team.  One question to be  
resolved is whether the election of coordinators will be open or  
closed - i will start a thread on this shortly.  People should also  
start to consider candidates for the coordinator and appeals team roles.

7. I will continue to work with the evote developer and the volunteer  
who is working on the interface to understand the various bugs, to  
fix them and to improve the tool, especially the user interface.

Finally I want to thank all those who voted and all those who  
encouraged others to vote.

thanks
a.

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