Just a reminder question to vote has resulted in a substantial flow of comments throughout this day ! :)<br />
Anyway, the reminder is always necessary, which is not a pressure to cast a vote. That reminder helped me in this case.<br />
Align to what Vint said, the interpretation will be more meaningful if we can add to the list of the candidates on line a checkbox like " blank candidate" to choice as blank ballot if no candidate is fine for someone. May be to fix this update during the next election because the current election is in process since many weeks.<br />
Even if the blank candidate does not impact the final result, it will be interesting to know that for instance, 100 people took part to the election and we got 90 abstentions.<br />
Regards,<br />
Janvier Ngnoulaye<br />
ISOC Cameroon Chapter<br />
Yaounde - Cameroon<br />
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From: Vint Cerf [vint@google.com]<br />
To: Bob Hinden [bob.hinden@gmail.com]<br />
CC: ISOC Chapter Delegates [chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org], Peter Koch [pk@isoc.de]<br />
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:31:10 -0400<br />
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<div dir="ltr">Abstention is a valid choice and there should be no prejudicial character to that. It may actually be useful to have a ballot that permits a chapter to submit a vote that effectively votes for no candidates (my interpretation of a "blank" ballot). Do others on the list believe that any significant fraction of non-voting chapters would submit a ballot if this option were available (versus simply not responding)?
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Bob Hinden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.hinden%40gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.hinden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
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I hope you didn't interpret my email asking Chapters to vote as interfering with the election. My thinking is that it's important for as many chapters as possible to vote in the Board election. Personally, I find it troubling that only half of the chapters (and similar turnout for org members) choose to vote. Hopefully, the turnout will be higher this year.<br />
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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Bob</font></span>
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On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Peter Koch <<a href="mailto:pk%40ISOC.DE">pk@ISOC.DE</a>> wrote:<br />
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:<br />
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>> Vint's question does beg an answer from you. You may decide not to<br />
>> interfere with the ongoing election process and answer him and Desiree in<br />
>> private, then make your answer public when the polling closes. I don't<br />
>> think you have a lot more choice.<br />
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> on my calendar it's the 24th today. That is 23 days past the first and one day left<br />
> into the voting deadline. To the latter: I, for one, take the liberty to exploit the<br />
> full extent of the deadline the election committee came up with. I am also<br />
> extremely sensitive to "public pressure", especially when it comes to elections.<br />
> That links to the former: It truly puzzles me to see a request to a chapter<br />
> to justify their vote (to other chapters), even if that is an abstention.<br />
> There are several reasons to abstain and sometimes even a qualified abstention<br />
> might have more value than a ballot cast under "pressure". I am pretty sure that several<br />
> people on this list who are, sadly, much more qualified from personal experience<br />
> than myself, would be able to share some depressing insight. Time to get a globe.<br />
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> -Peter<br />
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