[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Meryem Marzouki]

Judith,

Actually, Veni was backing my point which stated the role of  
mainstream medias in simply *informing* on the process and the  
consequences on the number of *votes* in the country where this  
happened, namely Germany w.r.t. to other countries in the same  
region. In other words, the point was on capacity building/raising  
awareness in the general public on the simple fact that elections  
were being held, and how this may influence the participation rate  
and thus the election results.

So, the issue is still whether or not a global election to a global  
organization like ICANN makes political sense, not whether or not  
there were flaws in the at-large elections process in 2000 (as these  
flaws are well known and have been extensively documented already).

Meryem

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Le 26 nov. 07 à 17:25, Judith Oppenheimer a écrit :

> 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.
>
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>
> -----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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