+1 

Marie-laure

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:09 PM, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

+100 if anyone doesn’t know Glen, she is fabulous and entirely impartial, full stop

Bill 

On Aug 24, 2016, at 23:44, avri doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

+1


On 24-Aug-16 17:07, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:

I strongly support James comment. We should avoid this discussion
up-front!

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 24 Aug 2016, at 16:31, James Gannon wrote:

Glen in the only person who has access to the votes, and I would
challenge anyone to even consider the possibility of her compromising
the integrity of the ballots and the election in general. I
personally don’t see this as a topic worth discussing.

-James

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Subject: Re: *Important* NCSG 2016 Annual Elections - Voting rules

Hi Ron,

Sorry for the confusion, but I do not have any kind of deep mistrust
for ICANN staff and did not intend for my remarks to be interpreted
in that manner.

Scepticism of the process is okay, however as I said in an email to
this list yesterday, I consent to the legitimacy of the electoral
process, I am willing to bear the costs of electoral participation,
and I am fully prepared to use this to communicate my pleasure or
displeasure with the candidate(s) that are presented before me.

Best wishes,

Ayden


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Subject: Re: *Important* NCSG 2016 Annual Elections - Voting rules
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Ayden Férdeline wrote:

Yes, I agree there should be a mechanism in place that allows voters
to spoil their ballot paper, should they wish to do so. The number
of spoiled ballots should be recorded.

I would consider it improper for anyone, be they ICANN staff or a
member of our community, to contact a voter about the contents of
their ballot paper and to insinuate that they may have voted in an
improper manner. If indeed it is possible to determine the number of
'invalid' ballot papers before the election is over, and who has cast
a vote in such a manner, I am surprised this is the case.

- Ayden

hi Ayden,

yes, with the mistrust that the NGSC has had for ICANN staff, it
seems that
trusting the election to a staff-run system would be considered
non-optimum.

i would prefer that an independent outside voting organization that
would
keep the partial results of elections in progress secret from members
and
ICANN staff and only report the final results.

while this is possible in the bylaws, our organization has no
independent
funds to contract for this outside work. but this option should be on
the table with the later discussion of voting procedures.

-ron

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