[governance] Results from the charter ballot

[Jeremy Shtern]

Avri,

eVote thanks.

Congratulations on seeing all of this work come to something and thanks 
again so much for everything you have put into this- you give honest 
brookers everywhere a good name.

Thanks also to everyone who took the time to consider this and then to 
vote,

Cheers,

Jeremy


Avri Doria wrote:
> 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)
>
> -------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> ---------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------
>
> 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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