[ncc-services-wg] voting on AGM

At 09:43 05/09/2009 +0200, Daniel Suchy wrote:
>Voting on AGM its locked to be on-site at this time, this requires
>traveling (mainly) around the Europe, this is a big barrier. According
>to Axel Pawlik presentation on last AGM, there never voted more than 5%
>of members on-site. This isn't really representative. For comparison, in
>online membership survey 2008 we had ansvers from around 11% of members
>- this is still not very high number, but is better...
>
>This is another argument for better interaction with members over
>electronic surveys, for example. This will provide much better and more
>representative results/feedback compared to NCC meetings.
>
>Daniel

I raised this in June in members-discuss:
>To change voting:
>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html#seventeen
>we have to go via:
>http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html#twenty
>and will require 2/3 of those voting to be in favor of the change!

In July Axel posted on this list:
>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.

and on members-discuss in July I posted in response to Nigel Titley's comments:
>>In all seriousness though. If you wish to open a discussion on the 
>>election process, then this is the list to do it on. Note that the 
>>current board has taken the step of encouraging the NCC to make 
>>announcements on this list rather than just making them at general 
>>meetings. This is  in order to encourage open debate. I'm pleased to see 
>>that this is having some effect.
>>...
>>>The result is that i have not voted until now, because i don't know 
>>>anybody and the cost to go to the GM meeting is too high...
>>The proxy voting system allows you to vote remotely, but of course if you 
>>don't know us then, as you say, a vote is pointless.
>
>How about the matter of electronic voting that I had raised 
>previously?  Why can't that be implemented?
>
>-Hank

and so died the entire discussion thread of online voting.  No one from 
RIPE NCC responded why electronic voting can't be implemented.

Draw your own conclusions.

-Hank