Another interesting way of seing things.. ------------------------ **Arsène Tungali** Co-Founder & Executive Director, *Rudi international <http://www.rudiinternational.org>*, CEO,* Smart Services Sarl <http://www.smart-serv.info>*, *Mabingwa Forum <http://www.mabingwa-forum.com>* Tel: +243 993810967 GPG: 523644A0 *Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo* 2015 Mandela Washington Felllow <http://tungali.blogspot.com/2015/06/selected-for-2015-mandela-washington.html> (YALI) - ISOC IGF Ambassador <http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/2015Ambassadors> <http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/2015Ambassadors>- Blogger <http://tungali.blogspot.com> - ICANN Fellow <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-18-en>. The HuffingtonPost UK <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/liza-bel/drc_b_8958150.html> 2016-08-22 14:46 GMT+02:00 avri doria <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi, > > The way I always thought NOTA worked in a ranking election as we have > for council, is that if someone picked NOTA instead of one candidate, > they were saying they preferred no one to that person. > > If they picked NOTA instead of 2 or 3 they preferred NOTA to any of them. > > After the counting, the top n win (3 in this case), except that anyone > who got fewer votes than NOTA would not. If there were fewer people > that 3 above NOTA, then we would need another election to fill the empty > slot (s). > > Our various EC were supposed to write procedures defining all of this > stuff years ago. Unfortunately they have functioned more as membership > committee than an EC doing the chartered work of proposing procedures as > defined in the charter. > > avri > > > > > On 22-Aug-16 08:23, James Gannon wrote: > > Hi Tapani, > > > > In the absence of something in the charter, can you clarify what the > situation is with regards to NOTA votes if NOTA places above a natural > person in the final vote what is the situation? > > > > -James > > > > > > > > > > > > On 22/08/2016, 10:54, "NCSG-Discuss on behalf of Tapani Tarvainen" < > [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:44:10AM +0000, James Gannon ( > [log in to unmask]) wrote: > >> > >>> Just on process where does the NOTA candidate come from with regards > >>> to our charter, as it seems that the inclusion of a NOTA candidate > >>> is not referenced anywhere. > >> While NotA is not explicitly mentioned in the charter, it has been > >> discussed in the past and an explicit NotA choice has been felt > >> to be useful. I'm only following precedent here. > >> > >>> Also we have a serious election process flaw in that with the manner > >>> in which NOTA is given is makes it impossible for us not to elect a > >>> full slate of candidates if the number of candidates matches the > >>> number of positions, which makes this essentially an acclimation. > >> How so? You can select any number of candidates, up to three. > >> > >> Arguably NotA is redundant in that the practical effect is > >> the same as not selecting any candidates, but in the past > >> it has been considered better to have it as an explicit choice. > >> > >> -- > >> Tapani Tarvainen > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus >