[PC-NCSG] IMPORTANT!! NCSG Policy Committee Chair Elections

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Mar 02 21:33, Amr Elsadr (aelsadr at egyptig.org) wrote:

> Thanks to all the candidates for accepting their nominations, and
> thank you Marilia for the kind words.

Thank you to all candidates from me as well.

> There are still a few hours left until the closing of the nomination
> period should anyone else care to step forward. As of now, the
> ballot should include Marilia Maciel as a candidate for the NCSG PC
> Chair, and Matt Shears and David Cake as candidates for the
> position(s) of NCSG PC Vice Chair.

No additional nominations were submitted, so that's it.

But I have a question about how we'll vote.

The plan was to vote in the PC meeting in Marrakech, with
remote voting option for those who can't make it.

It turns out somewhat difficult to arrange remote (or advance) voting
that would work in this scenario at this short notice (we'd need some
means to remove advance votes from people who do turn up after all),
so I would like to ask if you'd be willing to dispense with it.

That is, let's just vote with paper ballots in Marrakech.

Given the rule that 2/3 of PC members' votes are needed for
Chair election, the effect would be that if someone can't make
it there after all their vote would count as "none".

As the election doesn't appear to be heavily contested
and as far as we know everybody's going to be present,
I think this would be acceptable in this case.

I don't see any formal reason for it either, indeed
a vote by those present in a physical meeting used
to be the norm, even if in ICANN world it's a rarity.

But if people feel strongly that absentee votes are
important, I'll keep looking for a workable setup.

Thank you,

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen