Dear Tapani
Thank  you for sharing these concerns/issues with us.
It's clear that something nées to be harmonized at this level.
What are the others thinking ?
Le 23 août 2016 02:49, "Tapani Tarvainen" <[log in to unmask]> a
écrit :

> Dear all,
>
> As I've been accused of abruptly changing claimed long-established
> precedent in the treatment of NOTA, I looked at how it's been done
> in past NCSG elections since 2011.
>
> The only case where I found the impact of NOTA explicitly addressed
> by the Chair running the election was in 2011. Chair then was Avri
> Doria and she put it like this:
>
> "In the case of the g-council vote, the decision is to pick the top 4
> people. So if 'none of the above' comes in in any of the top 4 places,
> I suggest that it just gets skipped and the top 4 vote getters become
> the g-council representative. It is just that those who got fewer
> votes than none of the above, will have a clue about how hard they
> will have to work in order to represent the membership."
>
> http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1110&L=
> ncsg-discuss&D=0&P=115980
>
> In 2012 the ballot, run by Robin, was organized differently:
> candidates were explicitly selected by region, with separate NOTA for
> each. No explanation seems to have been offered as to what NOTA means.
> (I can't now find the ballot in the web, only in my personal mail
> archive.)
>
> In 2013 ballot was again run by Robin, this time with similar style as
> today with a common pool of council candidates, but there was no NOTA
> option at all.
>
> http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A3=ind1310&L=
> NCSG-DISCUSS&E=base64&P=1735682&B=--Apple-Mail%3D_BE8CECBD-76B4-4895-954A-
> 1A242E2FEF7E&T=application%2Fpdf;%20name=%22NCSG%20Election%20results%
> 20October%202013.pdf%22&N=NCSG%20Election%20results%
> 20October%202013.pdf&XSS=3
>
> In 2014, run by Rafik, there was one common NOTA for all council
> candidates, but no mention of it in the instructions.
>
> http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1409&L=ncsg-discuss&F=&S=&X=
> 31BCBB9C87C143B93B&P=1055
>
> In 2015, again by Rafik, similar to 2014, except this time NOTA was
> mentioned in his instructions - but without any explanation as to how
> it would be treated, only stating that 'In each list (Chair, GNSO
> councillors), you will also find the "none of the above" option.'
>
> http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1509&L=ncsg-discuss&F=&S=&X=
> 24E79EEDA4AE17FE9E&P=5880
>
> Absent explicit instructions to the contrary I took "None of the Above"
> literally: that you don't want to vote any of the candidates listed above.
>
> So, out of five past elections, in one it was explicitly stated NOTA
> victory would not actually impact councillor election, in one case
> there was no NOTA option, one was different enough from current that
> it's not really useful as a precedent, and in the remaining two
> there was no explanation of what a NOTA vote or NOTA victory would mean.
>
> Given such variance in past practices I don't see the present one
> as a radical departure from any established process.
>
> I do accept the chastisement of not having established the process
> properly, however, and pledge to do so before the next election,
> if I remain the Chair.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>