[PC-NCSG] ICANN Board Election and NCSG participation in the election

Tue Apr 8 05:00:32 EEST 2014

Thanks Maria for clarifying!

best,

Marie-laure

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:

> Thank you, Maria, for clarifying this ambiguous situation.  What a huge
> relief!
>
> Best,
> Robin
>
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
> Hi Maria,
>
> thank you for clarifying this, such misunderstanding may happen anytime
> and hopefully can be sorted out.
> Next round will start in the 8th April, so everybody please be ready to
> vote .
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik
>
>
> 2014-04-07 19:00 GMT+09:00 Maria Farrell <maria.farrell at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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 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 page.
>>
>> Cheers, m
>>
>>
>> On 7 April 2014 10:35, Klaus Stoll <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>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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