[governance] Results from the charter ballot
Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
nyangkweagien at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 08:27:28 EDT 2006
Avri
It is wonderful how you can swim out of the bee hive and come out with
all this. Kudos
Aaron
On 10/4/06, jsarr at refer.sn <jsarr at refer.sn> wrote:
> Félicitations à Avri pour tout le travail abattu.
> Salutations cordiales.
>
> Joseph
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Selon Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>:
>
> > 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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