I agree with your conclusion here dear Sam. The same exercise should be done for the NPOC too. My 2. Le 23 août 2016 10:01, "Sam Lanfranco" <[log in to unmask]> a écrit : > NOTA is used differently in different countries and different settings. In > September 2013 India’s Supreme Court upheld NOTA as a way for a voter to > reject the full slate of candidates, replacing an older process where the > voter could reject the full slate, but not in confidence. The disagreement > in understanding here, in this NCSG election, was whether NOTA should only > apply to the whole slate, forcing a full slate re-nomination and vote, or > should apply to each individual candidate. > > Unfortunately that voting process choice was not settled before the > election, and it is particularly relevant when the number of candidates > equals the number of positions. The usual process of simply not voting for > whom one does not prefer fails to capture the level of objection to > unpopular candidates in such cases as this. > > Here, for example, if the third candidate gets only 10% (or 1%) of the > vote that candidate is still elected. With individual candidate NOTA a > candidate with NOTA votes greater than support votes would not be elected. > Of course, in this case that would leave NCSG short one seat on the GNSO. A > proper prior NCSG agreement on how to handle NOTA could handle that by, for > example, calling for a subsequent election for that one seat. > > The lesson learned here is that NCSG has some voting procedure homework to > do before the next NCSG election. > > Sam L NPOC/csih > >