[governance] Re: Results from the charter ballot
Izumi AIZU
aizu at anr.org
Tue Oct 3 16:14:55 EDT 2006
I also like to share my thanks to Avri, for your dedication and
time- and energy-consuming works. Now that even it is tentative,
I think your and our efforts met with the result.
Well, we will go a long way, but though small it is a great first
step.
Thank you so much,
izumi
2006/10/4, Dave Kissoondoyal <dave at isoc-mu.org>:
> Thank-you Avri for all your dedication and efforts in the whole process.
>
> It is highly appreciated
>
> Best regards
>
> Dave Kissoondoyal
> President
> ISOC Mauritius
> PIR .ORG Advisory Council Member
> IT Director - Teleforma Mauritius Ltd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-owner+dave=isoc-mu.org at lists.cpsr.org
> [mailto:governance-owner+dave=isoc-mu.org at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Avri
> Doria
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:12 PM
> To: Governance Caucus
> Subject: [governance] Results from the charter ballot
>
> 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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