[NCSG-EC] Ballot draft

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Dear Robin,

Unfortunately the ICANN voting software we're using doesn't allow that kind
of gate-keeping setup. All it can handle are tick boxes one can choose to
mark, or not.

A separate Abstain box would thus lead to the situation where there're
several different ways of expressing same intent: we'd have to decide
what to do in case someone doesn't select Abstain but also doesn't
select either of the candidates, or if someone selects Abstain and one
of the candidates. While it'd be possible to deal with those, it would
be hard to explain clearly and just add confusion, more so because
it'd differ from the council vote.

Instead a simple explanatory text, say "If you don't want to support
either candidate, leave both unmarked" or the like would be easy.

Tapani

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:00:29AM -0700, Robin Gross via NCSG-EC (ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is) wrote:
> 
> I would include an abstain option for the chair election.
> 
> Ideally for council election, we could have an initial gate-keeping option to vote or abstain from voting for that position, and if one chooses to abstain, then there wouldn't be an additional vote made (selection of candidates) for that position.  I don’t know if you have the capability to fix the ballot this late into the election however.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robin
> 
> > On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Zalnieriute, Monika <Monika.Zalnieriute at EUI.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I also remember that was our agreement.
> > 
> > Kind regards, 
> >  
> > Dr. Monika Zalnieriute
> >  
> > Post-Doctoral Fellow @ Melbourne Law School | 
> > The University of Melbourne I law.unimelb.edu.au <http://law.unimelb.edu.au/> I
> > 185 Pelham St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia I
> >  
> > Visiting Fellow @ Center for Media, Data and Society I
> > Central European University I cmds.ceu.edu <http://cmds.ceu.edu/> I
> >  
> > Representative @ Executive Committee I
> > Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group I ICANN I icann.org <http://icann.org/> I
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: NCSG-EC <ncsg-ec-bounces at lists.ncsg.is <mailto:ncsg-ec-bounces at lists.ncsg.is>> on behalf of Robin Gross via NCSG-EC <ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is <mailto:ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is>>
> > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 4:51 PM
> > To: Tapani Tarvainen
> > Cc: NCSG EC
> > Subject: Re: [NCSG-EC] Ballot draft
> >  
> > Thanks.  Didn’t we say we would include an “abstention" option on the ballot?
> > 
> > Best,
> > Robin
> > 
> > > On Aug 18, 2017, at 8:05 AM, Tapani Tarvainen via NCSG-EC <ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is <mailto:ncsg-ec at lists.ncsg.is>> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Dear EC,
> > > 
> > > Here's is planned ballot for the election. This has to be finalized
> > > by Sunday, so quick comments would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Candidates are in alphabetical order. They could also be arranged by
> > > the order of nomination or acceptance or randomized - opinions welcome.
> > > 
> > > Also, suggestions on possible additional explanatory text would be
> > > appreciated.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > NCSG Election 2017
> > > 
> > > 
> > > **NCSG Chair**
> > > 
> > > Select at most *one* of the following candiates:
> > > 
> > > [ ] Farzaneh Badii
> > > [ ] David Cake
> > > 
> > > 
> > > **GNSO Council**
> > > 
> > > Select at most *four* (4) of the following candidates:
> > > 
> > > [ ] Ayden Férdeline
> > > [ ] Michael Karanicolas
> > > [ ] Tatiana Tropina
> > > [ ] Arsène Tungali
> > > [ ] Martin Silva Valent
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Tapani Tarvainen