Organizational rep/individual members in elections

[Nadira Alaraj]

Thanks Farzaneh for opening this thread.
Simply, the organizational members has to have a voting member different
than any of their individual members. If it happens to be the same as you
are describing then there is clear unfairness for the double votes in this
case one vote has to be counted.
The organizational members need to update their status on a yearly basis to
validate their representative against the individual members' list.


On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 14:23 farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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