[governance] Results of charter amendment vote/Apartheid

[Eric Dierker]

Norbert & Danny,
 
The record is quite clear here.  When I was being obsteperous about the vote extension I did so with the particular determination to make certain there was some record of circumstances and justification.
 
The circumstances were made clear: "Everyone extends voting deadlines" and "there are extenuating circumstances that prevented members from voting on time" (Of course Rui's tyrade of insults against me was not justification, just annoyance that I would question our rulers)
 
The above makes very clear that a tally of voting was kept. And more importantly that it was made known who was not able to vote within the deadline.  Otherwise there would have been no reason to extend.
 
Apartheid. I have been studying all of ICANNs refusal to allow for a vote. And the categorization of who, what, when and how people vote there and found this remarkable similarity.  http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html

--- On Sat, 9/26/09, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:


From: Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [governance] Results of charter amendment vote
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 12:36 PM


Danny Younger wrote:
> Ian,
>
> The Charter tells us that a charter amendment must be approved by no less than two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the IGC.
>
> To put to rest any concerns that we might have, would you might be good enough to tell us 
> (1)  the total number of IGC members
> (2)  how many votes were cast in the affirmative and how many in the negative on the day that the coordinators decided to extend the election.
>
> One would hate to think that the election process was gamed through the extension of voting so that the 2/3 threshhold could be met.
>   
Surprise - I do not know what kind of election system is being used, but
I hope it is a system where some basic confidentiality is maintained - I
thought I was casting a secret ballot, no?

Or was somebody checking the ballots as they came in, day-by-day,
putting then into a bookkeeping system on who voted when and how? I hope
that this was NOT the case - and if it was, I strongly suggest that we
will use a different electoral system next time.

Norbert Klein

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