[governance] Criterion for charter voting

[Adam Peake]

Jeremy, thanks for all your work on this.

"In amending the charter, everyone who voted in the previous election 
will be deemed a member for amending the charter."

And that does seem to be what happened.

I hope it won't come to disqualifying voters, or holding the vote 
again. Need to move on.

Adam





>On 29/09/2010, at 8:58 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>
>>  Having just voted in an election, one could argue that the 
>>conditions of the charter had been met.  Interesting cascade.
>>
>>  And on the spirit, this happened so quickly, within the two month 
>>margin for voting on an election, we can be confident no one joined 
>>the mailing list to mess with the charter.
>>
>>  So we might have both letter and spirit.
>
>Exactly.  That was my reason for doing it this way.  Whilst I agree 
>that it is a question of interpretation as to whether one can 
>interpret "voting 30 seconds ago" as having "voted in the previous 
>election", it cannot be questioned that if you vote in the election 
>one day before it closes, you can vote again in a charter poll that 
>is called the following day.  So - 30 seconds, or one day - what 
>difference does it make?
>
>Don't forget that we are pressed for time here.  Unless the charter 
>is amended, we will be unable to legally nominate any civil society 
>representatives for the CSTD working group on the IGF.  Further, the 
>longer delay between election and charter vote, the less time the 
>nominating committee will have to deliberate.
>
>Having said that, if there is a clear preference for Adam's 
>solution, whereby I would disqualify voters from all the 
>2010-eligible members if they were not also 2009-eligible members, 
>then we can proceed that way.  This is technically possible, and 
>will save us the time (and aggravation to people who have already 
>voted) that we would otherwise waste by duplicating the poll in 10 
>days time.
>
>However, my reason for avoiding doing this was that there was a 
>shadow over the validity of the 2009 membership list, that was never 
>completely resolved (and frankly, probably now cannot be, since the 
>person who ran the last election was unable to find the time to do 
>the necessary investigations - and he was always volunteering his 
>time after all).
>
>So my first preference is that we accept both the coordinator 
>election result AND the charter vote as valid, but I have encouraged 
>Parminder to let the Appeals Team decide if this is unacceptable to 
>him.
>
>My second preference is that if there are a sizable number of people 
>for whom the first option is unacceptable, and if it this would 
>overcome their concern and Parminder's, I will filter the results of 
>the charter poll through last year's membership list 
>(notwithstanding the problems with that list).
>
>My third and least preferred option is to run the charter vote again 
>after the coordinator ballot closes.  I would need an Appeals Team 
>decision on this before proceeding, because of the delay it would 
>cause to our selection of the CSTD panel.
>
>--
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