[EC-NCSG] QUICK: Ballot question

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Dear Monika,

My apologies for rushing things. You are indeed not required to
read email at night or even every day.

But sometimes things just happen quickly. Note that I didn't say
"the EC has decided..." - only that it doesn't seem willing to,
and since EC decisions require consensus and opinions expressed
by that time rather clearly indicated lack of consensus, I don't
think that was inaccurate.

In order for the EC to actually make a decision, I would of course
make sure all its members get to have their say, with either
sufficiently long discussion on the list or a call.

In the absense of any signs that we might reach a consensus,
I'm not sure a formal meeting would be useful now. But I can
certainly arrange a call if others think it'd help.

Tapani

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:11:57AM +0000, Zalnieriute, Monika (Monika.Zalnieriute at EUI.eu) wrote:

> Dear Tapani and members of the EC,
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> I agree with the concerns raised, and I would like to briefly postpone an annual election to get the system fixed.
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> Living in Australia means I cannot reply in Tapani's e-mail asking if EC wants to change anything in 1 minute. Nor do I believe people are expected to reply within 10 minutes (that was the timeline, according to the timings between 2 e-mails of Tapani, with the second one stating:'But it seems the EC isn't willing to call for new ballots or anything else at this point. So the voting will continue with current ballots.'). It was the middle of the night, and I was sleeping. I did not take such decision no to do anything, once I woke up, and saw all of this, I would like to in fact exercise the EC right to postpone the elections.
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> As a member of the EC, I have refrained from signing any petitions against the decisions that the EC (at least me personally as a member) did not yet even take. I would imagine, we better need to solve this internally within the EC committee?
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> I suggest we do so as soon as we can,
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> Best wishes,
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> Monika
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> Dr. Monika Zalnieriute
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> From: EC-NCSG <ec-ncsg-bounces at ipjustice.org> on behalf of Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info>
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 7:43 PM
> To: ec-ncsg at ipjustice.org
> Subject: Re: [EC-NCSG] QUICK: Ballot question
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> It seems clear this discussion isn't going any further.
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> The EC clearly isn't willing to make a decision to
> call for new ballots or restart the election otherwise.
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> So I'll call this discussion closed.
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> But if someone wants to propose a decision disapproving
> my handling of the election, feel free to go ahead,
> I will recuse myself.
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> Tapani Tarvainen