[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Judith Oppenheimer]

Veni, your points about election considerations are well taken, and should be part of the conversation on how to build on what was accomplished from the first ICANN election.

If we only looked at what we think goes wrong (or who the press paid attention to - and that's not a bad thing - the press should be encouraged to pay attention to all the candidates, wouldn't that be great!),  and therefore said something does't work - we'd never hold another U.S. election.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com>

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:48:12 
To:governance at lists.cpsr.org, Meryem Marzouki <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Reinstate the Vote


At 19:28 11/21/2007  +0100, you wrote:

>It has been shown that in countries
>where the mainstream media informed about the process, the
>participation rate was higher by far than in other countries in same
>region with comparable rate of Internet users.

I can confirm that with experience from Europe. An article in a 
German magazine was enough to give a huge lead to Andy compared to 
other candidates, including all of the East European ones. Also, if I 
am not mistaken, for some countries it might have been a matter of 
national pride to have their candidate elected. If we think seriously 
about it, such elections could take place, only if it is guaranteed 
that the countries with smaller number of population will have any 
chance to countries with billions of people. Otherwise the results of 
the elections will be known in advance.

veni  

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