[members-discuss] Re: [ncc-announce] Voting Options at General Meetings
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Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Tue Jul 21 18:11:36 CEST 2009
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Axel Pawlik wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > The RIPE NCC Executive Board has been evaluating various options regarding > the proposal to change the voting procedure currently used to elect the > Executive Board during General Meetings. > > Several of these options were presented at the General Meeting in May 2009. > Please refer to this presentation for more details: > http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2009/presentations/ > > After discussion during this meeting, there was no clear consensus on how to > proceed. The minutes of the General Meeting are available at: > http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2009/minutes.html > > The Executive Board concluded that in order to widen participation in > elections, it will propose to allow voting by postal ballot for Executive > Board elections. This addition to the voting process will not require a major > effort or a major investment from the RIPE NCC. I think that is a poor choice for testing postal ballots. Due to the low interest in whether one person or another gets elected, the number of postal ballots submitted will be quite low - and you will therefore draw an erroneous conclusion. Why not have postal voting for the charging scheme? Offer a few alternatives - I bet that would generate much more voting interest. > > The Executive Board will monitor whether this enhancement leads to increased > participation and based on these outcomes will decide on further steps. > Sort of like watching the number of boats crossing a river and drawing a conclusion that based on the number of boats and commerce between the 2 shores it doesn't warrant building a bridge on that spot. -Hank > Membership discussion of the proposed changes to voting options for General > Meetings can take place at <members-discuss at ripe.net>. > > For your information, there has already been some discussion on the > members-discuss mailing list. The mailing list archive is available at: > http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/members-discuss/2009/index.html#00064 > > Best regards, > > Axel Pawlik > Managing Director > RIPE NCC >
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