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
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