[governance] Results from the charter ballot

karen banks karenb at gn.apc.org
Thu Oct 5 11:35:46 EDT 2006


ditto avri

good work!

karen

At 17:42 03/10/2006, Dave Kissoondoyal wrote:
>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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