Organizational rep/individual members in elections

[farzaneh badii]

Dear all,

I have sent the message below to NCSG EC and I think we need to have a
discussion about it and make an official decision on this issue. Please
chime in:

At the moment the organizational reps who are individual members of NCSG
can participate in the elections as both organizational rep and individual
members. Apparently, it has been discussed repeatedly in the past with no
decision. Other than they said it is not against the charter.

Not having remembered that it has been discussed but no decision made, I
started contacting those who were listed as an individual member as well as
organizational rep on the check-in list and asked them to choose whether
they want to be individual members or represent their organization, since
being both allowed them to vote twice which I think is not acceptable for
the integrity of elections. Tapani corrected me and said the issue was
discussed but never decided against
https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-June/000021.html

I personally think it is unfair to allow organizational reps who are
individual members to vote twice. This is because organizational reps
(usually but not always) have autonomy from their organization to vote as
they see appropriate and do not have a mandate as such. If they are also
individual members, it provides them with the opportunity to vote twice and
I think we need to fix it.

It might be too late to do this in this election but we need to discuss and
make a decision. I have started explaining the rationale to those who are
organizational reps as well as individual members and asked them to decide
what they want to do for this election voluntarily until we make a
decision.


Best


Farzaneh
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