Re(2): [governance] Results from the charter ballot
Jonathan Robin
jonathanrobin at messagerie.net
Tue Oct 3 16:25:30 EDT 2006
Dear Avri, all,
I would like to add my congratulations for the transparent and appropriate
and successful process adopted for this vote
As a "concerned" and formerly active contributor and currently pessimistic
lurker it is heartwarming to witness the sustained commitment by many
names I recognize on the voting list.
It is also disturbing to note that quality is not reflected in quantity
despite the networks that may be alerted in which this lists actors often
play a decisive part.
Perhaps we may see a light at the end of the tunnel after the U.S.
elections providing there is no corresponding growth in overconcentration
of political power in the hands of the European Commission
However the issues facing us are both complicated and linked to spin off
of emerging technology convergence whose evolution and whose implications
are difficult to foresee and more difficult to alert as much is filtered
or distorted as it percolates through the system.
Wishing you all luck
Best regards Jonathan
profile: http://www.icdri.org/JR.htm
governance at lists.cpsr.org,Internet a écrit:
>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>> governance at lists.cpsr.org
>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
>> governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
>>
>> For all list information and functions, see:
>> http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
>>
>____________________________________________________________
>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
> governance at lists.cpsr.org
>To be removed from the list, send any message to:
> governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
>
>For all list information and functions, see:
> http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
>
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org
For all list information and functions, see:
http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
More information about the Governance
mailing list