<div dir="ltr">+1 <div>Marie-laure</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:09 PM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">+100 if anyone doesn’t know Glen, she is fabulous and entirely impartial, full stop<div><br></div><div>Bill <div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 24, 2016, at 23:44, avri doria <<a href="mailto:avri@apc.org" target="_blank">avri@apc.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>+1<br><br><br>On 24-Aug-16 17:07, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I strongly support James comment. We should avoid this discussion<br>up-front!<br><br>Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br><a href="tel:%2B506%208837%207176" value="+50688377176" target="_blank">+506 8837 7176</a><br>Skype: carlos.raulg<br>Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)<br>On 24 Aug 2016, at 16:31, James Gannon wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Glen in the only person who has access to the votes, and I would<br>challenge anyone to even consider the possibility of her compromising<br>the integrity of the ballots and the election in general. I<br>personally don’t see this as a topic worth discussing.<br><br>-James<br><br>From: NCSG-Discuss<br><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><wbr><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.<wbr>SYR.EDU</a>>><br>on behalf of Ayden Férdeline<br><<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">icann@FERDELINE.COM</a><<a href="mailto:icann@FERDELINE.COM" target="_blank">mailto:<wbr>icann@FERDELINE.COM</a>>><br>Reply-To: Ayden Férdeline<br><<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">icann@FERDELINE.COM</a><<a href="mailto:icann@FERDELINE.COM" target="_blank">mailto:<wbr>icann@FERDELINE.COM</a>>><br>Date: Wednesday 24 August 2016 at 21:23<br>To:<br>"<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><wbr><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.<wbr>SYR.EDU</a>>"<br><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><wbr><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.<wbr>SYR.EDU</a>>><br>Subject: Re: *Important* NCSG 2016 Annual Elections - Voting rules<br><br>Hi Ron,<br><br>Sorry for the confusion, but I do not have any kind of deep mistrust<br>for ICANN staff and did not intend for my remarks to be interpreted<br>in that manner.<br><br>Scepticism of the process is okay, however as I said in an email to<br>this list yesterday, I consent to the legitimacy of the electoral<br>process, I am willing to bear the costs of electoral participation,<br>and I am fully prepared to use this to communicate my pleasure or<br>displeasure with the candidate(s) that are presented before me.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Ayden<br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: *Important* NCSG 2016 Annual Elections - Voting rules<br>Local Time: August 24, 2016 9:00 PM<br>UTC Time: August 24, 2016 8:00 PM<br>From: <a href="mailto:rjw@itsmyinternet.org" target="_blank">rjw@ITSMYINTERNET.ORG</a><<a href="mailto:rjw@ITSMYINTERNET.ORG" target="_blank">mailto:<wbr>rjw@ITSMYINTERNET.ORG</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank"><wbr>mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.<wbr>SYR.EDU</a>><br><br><br><br>On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Ayden Férdeline wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Yes, I agree there should be a mechanism in place that allows voters<br>to spoil their ballot paper, should they wish to do so. The number<br>of spoiled ballots should be recorded.<br></blockquote><br>I would consider it improper for anyone, be they ICANN staff or a<br>member of our community, to contact a voter about the contents of<br>their ballot paper and to insinuate that they may have voted in an<br>improper manner. If indeed it is possible to determine the number of<br>'invalid' ballot papers before the election is over, and who has cast<br>a vote in such a manner, I am surprised this is the case.<br><br>- Ayden<br><br>hi Ayden,<br><br>yes, with the mistrust that the NGSC has had for ICANN staff, it<br>seems that<br>trusting the election to a staff-run system would be considered<br>non-optimum.<br><br>i would prefer that an independent outside voting organization that<br>would<br>keep the partial results of elections in progress secret from members<br>and<br>ICANN staff and only report the final results.<br><br>while this is possible in the bylaws, our organization has no<br>independent<br>funds to contract for this outside work. but this option should be on<br>the table with the later discussion of voting procedures.<br><br>-ron<br></blockquote><br></blockquote><br><br>---<br>This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.<br><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" target="_blank">https://www.avast.com/<wbr>antivirus</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div>
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