[PC-NCSG] proxy voting. Re: [] ICANN Board Election ...

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I think that it could best be done by appointing a temporary alternate
for the period that someone is off the net.

avri


On 07-Apr-14 06:52, Amr Elsadr wrote:
> Thanks for clearing that up, Maria. Is proxy voting allowed in board
> elections? If it isn?t, it may be something we might want to consider
> addressing.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Amr
> 
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Maria Farrell <maria.farrell at gmail.com
> <mailto:maria.farrell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you, Klaus!
>>
>> I have to admit I pretty much sprouted a stomach ulcer when I saw this.
>>
>> OK, I have now talked to Glen and it looks like what has happened is
>> that the tally.icann.org <http://tally.icann.org/> page Robin sent
>> around cannot be adjusted to record verbal votes - i.e. mine, received
>> by Glen and transmitted & confirmed by Nathalie. So it just 'looks'
>> like the round is five votes to six. Glen says that later on today
>> when the *official* result is sent out, it will be six votes each, and
>> we will then start on the second round.
>>
>> Sorry, folks, for causing any consternation. The official result is in
>> this instance not the same as the tally.icann.org
>> <http://tally.icann.org/> page.
>>
>> Cheers, m
>>
>>
>> On 7 April 2014 10:35, Klaus Stoll <klaus.stoll at gkpfoundation.org
>> <mailto:klaus.stoll at gkpfoundation.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks Maria for letting us know. Shit happens!!! I hope that it
>>     can/should be sorted out with Glen.
>>
>>     With regard to my previous email: Trust restored.
>>
>>     Yours
>>
>>     Klaus
>>
>>
>>      On 4/7/2014 9:59 AM, Maria Farrell wrote:
>>>     Dear all,
>>>
>>>     I am checking what happened because I fear the missing link may
>>>     be me... Apologies as I got home from my travels only last night,
>>>     having been offline for over a week in a part of Indonesia
>>>     without Internet.
>>>
>>>     As it was an email vote and I was going to be offline for the
>>>     week of the first round, Glen kindly offered to give my vote
>>>     verbally to the election organiser and said this would suffice.
>>>
>>>     (In fact, I hadn't twigged that it was a purely email vote and
>>>     had previously given my proxy to David, but ran into Glen as I
>>>     left Singapore.)
>>>
>>>     If something happened and Glen didn't or couldn't send in my
>>>     vote, then the fault lies with me. I don't know what the
>>>     explanation is, yet, but I will find out and tell you as soon as
>>>     I do.
>>>
>>>     All the best, Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 7 April 2014 08:47, Klaus Stoll <klaus.stoll at gkpfoundation.org
>>>     <mailto:klaus.stoll at gkpfoundation.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Dear Friends
>>>
>>>         This is serious not just about the election outcome but
>>>         because I am loosing trust in the people I should trust the
>>>         most. I respect the freedom for every councilor to vote as
>>>         his opinion and conscience tells him, but in this case we had
>>>         a clear agreement and everybody explicitly and verbally
>>>         agreed with the block vote.
>>>
>>>         Disappointed
>>>
>>>         Klaus
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 4/7/2014 3:56 AM, Robin Gross wrote:
>>>>         Representatives:
>>>>
>>>>         It looks like one of NCSG's GNSO Representatives did not vote in last week's ICANN Board election:
>>>>           https://tally.icann.org/cgi/results?a=pr&e=478fe5066c0 <https://tally.icann.org/cgi/results?a=pr&e=478fe5066c0>
>>>>
>>>>         All 6 representatives in Singapore agreed to be bound to vote for the NCSG candidate in the election for a board seat and Avri was our candidate.  This is a very important responsibility: to represent noncommercial users in the election for a board seat.  It is one of the most important things that NCSG does.
>>>>
>>>>         So what happened?  How did we happen to lose this election on the first round?  
>>>>
>>>>         Thanks,
>>>>         Robin
>>>>
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